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Hyosung Vina Chemicals, which launched a $1bn loan last month for capital expenditure related to chemical plants in Vietnam, has cancelled the fundraising. Its new Vietnamese unit is still pending the government’s approval for incorporation, according to a South Korea-based banker close to the deal.
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Sixteen banks have made the most concerted effort yet at defining how to do scenario analysis on climate change — the core risk management exercise called for by the Task Force on Climate-Related Financial Disclosures. -
How risky is it to lend money to a coal-fired power plant or an oil company? OK for another five years, perhaps — but how much longer can they carry on in the face of climate change? So far, banks have largely ducked questions like these. But from next year, more and more of them will be giving some kind of answer in their annual reports.
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Emerging market borrowers in the EMEA region are increasingly asking for investment grade style terms on their deals, with demands for the maturity structure ubiquitous among high grade revolving credit facilities causing consternation among lenders. Mike Turner reports.
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The gloom over Russian capital markets was lifted a little this week as the US Treasury softened its stance towards sanctioned aluminium behemoth Rusal, giving hope to markets that the announcement of new sanctions against Russia at the beginning of April may not have been a knockout blow, write Sam Kerr, Francesca Young and Mike Turner.
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India’s Reliance Jio Infocomm has launched the biggest Samurai loan from an Asian company into general syndication, as it looks to leverage on Japanese onshore liquidity.
