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Africa has been keeping emerging market loans desks busy as deal flow remains lethargic in the Middle East and eastern Europe.
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Loans bankers in Asia ex-Japan have suffered their worst start to the year in seven years, after managing to close deals for just $10bn in January across domestic and offshore loan markets.
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The shine has come off the offshore renminbi market. Funding costs are rising, bond investors are posturing and some analysts now think that renminbi deposits in Hong Kong will fall this year, after an almost unbroken growth streak for the past two years. That is bad news for loans bankers.
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Indonesian shipping company Berlian Laju Tanker is considering a possible debt restructuring and has yet to decide whether to continue with interest payments. It froze repayments on its outstanding debt at the end of last week after telling investors that one of its subsidiaries had breached a loan covenant.
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Philippine Airlines plans to raise around $50m from offshore lenders, after asking Credit Suisse to increase the size of a bilateral loan it signed last year. The deal offers potential lenders a novel structure — an amortising deal that pays a steady stream of receivables from credit card bookings for the airline’s flights.