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  • Sun Hung Kai Properties (SHK) is due to sign an HK$10bn ($1.29bn) loan in the next two weeks. A top rated borrower with assets across Hong Kong, the company managed to raise its latest borrowing at a margin lower than an HK$14bn loan it signed in January last year.
  • For years, spirits in western Europe’s loan market have been kept from gloom by one thing: hope that one day, there would be another boom in mergers and acquisitions. In 2014, it finally arrived. But it has not been the bonanza loan bankers desired, with many deals financed in other markets. This year banks will rely on M&A even more as refinancings dry up. Will the dealflow be sufficient? Elly Whittaker reports.
  • Japan's three megabanks launched Indian Oil Corp’s (IOC) C$600m ($541m) loan into general syndication on January 6. As the deal requires banks to commit in Canadian dollars, the leads are focusing primarily on US and Canadian banks.
  • A consortium of ten banks has signed an HK$4.46bn triple tranche facility for CVC sponsored Hong Kong Broadband Network. The loan received much attention when agent JP Morgan first started sounding out banks, as some bankers felt it was too aggressively structured and with too loose covenants.
  • Lippo Malls Indonesia Retail Trust has net a loan of S$180m ($137m) from a group of three lenders, with the first drawdown of the facilities expected to occur before the year ends.
  • Schuldschein bankers are hoping to continue the market's expansion in 2015 to include more borrowers from outside German-speaking countries, even though some recent international deals have not gone according to plan.