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Société Générale and Standard Chartered provided euro and yen tranches respectively in first World Bank-backed transaction involving the Japanese currency
HSBC, Mizuho and Standard Chartered coordinated deal which drew 10 lenders
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Powerlong Real Estate Holdings has closed a $305m offshore loan with three lenders. -
The governance problems at the United Nations’ Green Climate Fund hit a new low this week when a four day board meeting was almost entirely taken up with procedural wrangling and failed to reach agreement on most of the agenda.
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It is common for a firm to have an association with an adjective. The description is often derogatory, so acquisitive companies are often said to be rapacious. For Glencore, the commonly used adjective is secretive.
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On Wednesday the UK’s final court of appeal rejected Goldman Sachs’s attempt to recover money lost on a loan to Banco Espírito Santo through the British courts. The judge said the EU’s framework for dealing with failing banks might be undermined if the actions of resolution authorities could be challenged outside of their home country.
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Bahraini sovereign bonds fell victim to “malicious rumours” this week after they took a further battering following headlines that Lazard had been appointed as an adviser to the country. The firm, which advises on debt restructuring among other things, was in fact appointed in early May and has been advising the country on its economy for several months, according to a source with knowledge of the matter. Virginia Furness and Michael Turner report.
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A handful of deals from Bahrain and the CIS region is all there is to keep emerging markets loans bankers busy over the next six to eight weeks, with many already heading off for summer breaks as volumes and near term pipelines dwindle to almost zero.
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