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  • Indian borrowers showed their enduring appeal this week, as two of the year’s biggest corporate deals got traction with the lending community, and Union Bank of India became the latest Indian bank to increase a loan after getting strong demand from the market.
  • Lenders participating in the $1.5bn loan for Gazprom-Neft will have their commitments scaled back as the deal has been oversusbcribed even after the state-owned Russian oil group increased the loan from $1.35bn. The firm will sign the facility next Thursday or Friday.
  • Stemcor, the UK steel trader, is in the market with a $75m revolver — its first loan to target Asian banks. The deal is to be the first of several in Asia for the borrower, which, like many European commodity companies, is drawn by the liquidity in Asia’s loan market.
  • The African Development Bank (AfDB) is considering its first co-financing with international lenders in an A/B structured loan, bankers close to the deal told EuroWeek.
  • Two to three banks have committed to Healthscope’s A$1.5bn ($1.33bn) buy-out loan ahead of the deal heading to syndication in the next few weeks. It is the largest leveraged loan in Asia Pacific so far this year.
  • Gulf Finance House (GFH), the Bahrani lender that has restructured and extended its syndicated loans, is planning to recapitalise by issuing a $300m convertible murabaha. It has appointed Deutsche Bank to structure the deal.