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  • Pricing for a S$1.3bn ($991m) loan to back the acquisition of Vietnamese state owned Saigon Beer Alcohol Beverage Corp (Sabeco) has come in low, said bankers. Singaporean company Fraser and Neave (F&N), which is borrowing the money, has split the fundraising equally between a term loan and a bridge.
  • Kingboard Laminates Holdings has returned to the market for an HK$3bn ($386.8m) refinancing of a deal from 2010. The company is paying a premium over its last fundraising, which it sealed at the beginning of the year, as it has been a frequent borrower and many banks already have exposure to it.
  • India’s Hindustan Petroleum Corp has closed its $300m fundraising with commitments worth $225m pouring in from 12 lenders during general syndication. Although it got off to a slow start, the deal gained traction once lenders took into consideration the thinning in pricing for Indian state-owned names after it launched.
  • Grupo Actividades de Construcción y Servicios (ACS) of Spain is in talks with a group of banks to refinance €2.2bn of debt, and plans to complete the deal in January 2015.
  • Spanish corporate borrowers have reached into the loan market to refinance in recent weeks, while business lending in Spain is set to bounce back, according to a report from Ernst & Young.
  • The Spanish insurance company Mapfre is near to completion on a loan refinancing deal with 11 banks.