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  • Bank holidays should be a blessing to loans bankers, right? The clue about who should benefit from these freebies is right there in the name. It’s a shame that loans bankers’ bosses have other ideas.
  • Indian mortgage lender Housing Development Finance Corp signed its $300m five year facility on Friday, May 9, which saw commitments worth $45m come in from banks that joined in general syndication.
  • Indian Oil Corp has mandated nine banks for its latest fundraising, with the strong support at the top allowing the borrower to increase its loan to $650m from the $500m it had sought in its request for proposals.
  • State Bank of India has closed its loan at $554.5m, managing to gather enough demand during syndication to increase its borrowing from the launch size of $390m.
  • Noble Group, a supplier of agricultural and energy products, metals and minerals, has increased the final size of its loan to $2bn from the launch size of $1.35bn, with an impressive showing in syndication that saw some 40 banks join in.
  • A long-awaited new wave of mergers and acquisitions is set to buoy the struggling European syndicated loan market, senior bankers said this week after the emergence of a jumbo bridge loan to finance Bayer’s $14.2bn acquisition of Merck & Co’s customer care business. Michael Turner reports.