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  • Just as the year's first round of Turkish bank refinancing has almost reached an end, Akbank has taken the market in a new direction, with a three year loan that is the first Turkish stand-alone financial deal since 2007 that is longer than a year.
  • The Middle East loan market remains active despite a lull elsewhere in emerging market business, although one deal likely to be signed has been long in the works.
  • Cinven — Minimx Viking — CRH — Tieto — Limak
  • Sluggish syndicated loan dealflow is proving to be good news for small and mid-cap privately-owned Chinese companies like Golden Eagle Group and Xinyi Solar, which are finding themselves able to enjoy pricing levels usually reserved for better known names. And so great is bank demand for assets that looser structuring and lower amortisation are increasingly possible, writes Shruti Chaturvedi.
  • Akbank AG, the Frankfurt based subsidiary of Turkey’s Akbank, has launched a refinancing of the $150m-equivalent one year trade finance loan it signed in 2014.
  • The Philippines’ largest bank — BDO Unibank — is in the market to raise $350m in a deal led by half a dozen mandated lead arrangers and bookrunners. The bank is the latest among a string of financial institutions out of the country to go offshore for dollars. Bankers expect more activity of this kind, as Philippine lenders look to fund their fast growing economy.