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  • BlackRock added one year to a $4bn March 2021 five year facility this week, with over 30 banks piling into syndication.
  • Everbright Financial Leasing Co is seeking a $200m three year facility through a single mandated lead arranger and bookrunner.
  • Companies financing acquisitions are opting to use more term loans, alongside the bridge facilities that have become the norm in recent years. With banks eager to lend, it merely gives the borrowers even more flexibility.
  • Ant Financial subsidiary Alipay (Hong Kong) Holding has launched a $3bn debut syndication via a nine-member bookrunner group. The strong showing at the top is driven by opportunities to cross-sell higher fee-generating products such as private banking, equity advisory and underwriting services to the Alibaba Group-affiliated borrower, reports Shruti Chaturvedi.
  • Even as South Africa and Halkbank prove that idiosyncratic risks are ever present in in emerging market bonds, conditions remain beyond syndicate bankers wildest dreams. That is good news for the bulging pipeline.
  • ONGC Videsh (OVL), the overseas investment arm of Indian state-owned ONGC, has selected three banks for a $500m term loan to replace a bridge from last year. The oil firm is also raising funds in yen, and has picked two Japanese lenders for the financing, said a source.