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China unveiled a new benchmark rate, the loan prime rate (LPR), for loans this week. While hailed as a groundbreaking step towards making its benchmark lending rate more market-driven, the mechanism for determining the LPR in fact grants the central bank more control over the country’s interest rates. -
Far East Consortium International (FEC) is in talks with banks to raise a bridge facility of around HK$1bn ($127m) to support its acquisition of a land plot in Kai Tak, this site of Hong Kong's old airport, from the government.
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The People’s Bank of China (PBoC) unveiled a new benchmark rate for bank loans on Saturday. The loan prime rate (LPR) will replace the current one-year lending rate, which has stood still for four years at 4.35%, as the new benchmark. The move is aimed at making the lending rates more market-based and lowering the funding cost for the real economy, analysts say.
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Market participants say that secondary spreads of emerging market loans are compressing as activity draws to a standstill, amid signs of slowing global growth and the threat of trade wars.
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Housing Development Finance Corp has made a quick return to the syndicated loan market for a $200m borrowing, five months after it sealed a Samurai loan.
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Macau casino operator MGM China has raised its first unsecured borrowing, joining a handful of companies raising straight loans to replace outstanding secured facilities. Bankers think that plenty more casinos will take a punt on the format. Pan Yue reports.
