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HSBC, Mizuho and Standard Chartered coordinated deal which drew 10 lenders
Deal comes 11 years after the company's previous loan and was extended by two banks
Saudi Arabia mining firm furths relationships with international banks following a $1bn sukuk in January
First Abu Dhabi joins the syndicate for the short term loan all but equalling the size of a previous revolving facility
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  • MTN Uganda completed a $100m loan this week, becoming the latest African telecoms group to tap the market, while Vodacom Tanzania has started to approach banks to raise $60m.
  • Paltry pricing — and bankers' complaints that borrowers are fleecing them — have made a comeback in Europe’s loan market after a long absence. But there is still some way to go before calling the market’s full recovery. Blue chips may have it easy but for lesser borrowers it is still tough going.
  • Qatari Diar, the real estate group, signed a Qr4bn ($1.1bn) Islamic loan on Tuesday after increasing it from its launch size of Qr3.5bn. The five year deal, one of the biggest widely syndicated facilities from the Middle East this year, succeeded despite Qatar Islamic Bank, the sole bookrunner, tightening the pricing just before launch.
  • Dutch commodities trader Trafigura closed syndication of a $505m loan on Tuesday after receiving commitments of around $700m for a deal that was targeted at Asian lenders.
  • The sponsors of the $9.6bn Jubail oil refinery project finance loan are set to increase the commercial portion after picking up less support than hoped for from export credit agencies. Jubail is one of the two high profile projects, along with the Eu7.4bn Nord Stream gas pipeline, on which terms should be finalised in the next fortnight.
  • Noble Group, the Singapore-listed trading company, closed syndication on Friday on a $1.8bn loan after a positive response left it well oversubscribed.