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  • Saudi Arabian food group Savola has increased its share in Almarai Company, another Saudi food and drinks producer, after paying Sr2bn ($533m) to increase its stake in the firm from 29.95% to 36.52%.
  • FIG
    Bank of Tokyo-Mitsubishi UFJ, the initial mandated lead arranger and co-ordinator on First Gulf Bank’s three year bullet loan, has this week closed the syndication of the facility “nicely oversubscribed”.
  • FIG
    Sberbank has signed the largest and longest Russian bank loan of 2012, completing a new $1.5bn three year credit facility.
  • Mobile telecommunications company Zain Saudi said that it is in “well-advanced” discussions over a new loan to replace the Sr9bn ($2.4bn) still outstanding under its existing Sr9.75bn Murabaha facility, which has already been extended three times and is now due to mature on November 28.
  • Olivier Khayat, deputy head of corporate and investment banking at UniCredit, is adding the global transaction banking remit to his portfolio on an interim basis.
  • The Chinese government released data at the weekend showing that domestic loan growth in September was well above last year’s figure, giving analysts some reason for cheer. But offshore lenders have no such excuse for optimism, and are ruing the fall in business from the mainland this year.