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International Finance Corp’s drive to introduce development finance to the CLO market is advancing. Its second deal of $509m had more investors, more tranches and better pricing, supporting its rapid growth
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Divisions deepen over multilateral development banks’ climate commitments
Investors and techniques are ready for development banks to scale up securitization rapidly
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AfDB hopes to launch multi-issuer securitization this year
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  • The Islamic Republic of Pakistan has increased the size of its latest loan to $325m from $300m after a few more lenders joined the deal at a later stage.
  • Blockchain, the technology underlying bitcoin, is coming to a back office, and clearing house, and bank, and front office near you. Instead of one authority keeping records, everyone will. That’s the idea, anyway, of a wave of start-ups rushing to build workable applications. How will clarity emerge from this ferment, and just how will it change the business of capital markets? Jon Hay reports.
  • Middle Eastern loans burst open in the fourth quarter of 2015, with deals aplenty for corporates, banks and sovereigns. The deal flow will not ebb this year, but pricing will rise and international lenders will play a bigger role, replacing local lenders. Elly Whittaker reports.
  • A $275m five year loan for US-based private equity firms General Atlantic and Warburg Pincus received “massive oversubscription” from a small group of Middle Eastern banks hungry for yield as their cost of funding rises, according to a banker on the deal.
  • Oil trader Vitol is syndicating a $3bn loan with a margin of 185bp and should complete the deal by the end of the month, according to a banker involved.
  • Private bank Otkritie has nearly completed a $185m one year loan, one of only a few international loans completed by Russian banks since the introduction of financial sanctions on the country by the US and European Union in late 2014.