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  • Lifestyle International, which operates the Sogo department stores, is believed to be talking to relationship banks for a loan related to its acquisition of a plot of land in Hong Kong. But the company’s downgrade by Fitch and the possibility of similar action by Moody’s could make things harder at the negotiating table, writes Shruti Chaturvedi.
  • China put the brakes on capital outflows again this week, taking aim at both large and small scale transactions amid a falling renminbi. Market participants are digesting the impact of the new curbs, as yet unconfirmed, but some thought that they could weed out dodgy deals and raise the quality of M&A financing. John Loh and Shruti Chaturvedi report.
  • Bank of Tokyo-Mitsubishi UFJ (BTMU) has named Vivian Sam as assistant general manager of event finance at its Asian investment banking division (AIBD), in a new role for the former Citi acquisition finance banker.
  • India’s Reliance Industries, which asked banks for feedback on a new loan to replace a $1.75bn borrowing signed in November 2013, has picked lenders to arrange the funds.
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    Arqiva, the UK broadcasting masts business, has refinanced a swathe of loans, partly with a sterling-only US private placement issue from its whole business securitization.
  • K Wah Financial Services is said to be on the hunt for a HK$6bn ($773.6m) five year facility. The company was last seen in the loans market in May this year, when it sealed a HK$2.4bn borrowing.