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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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Ever since six Arab countries led by Saudia Arabia and the UAE ostracised Qatar last summer, banks have been agonising over the feud. -
Qatar National Bank (QNB) has signed a $3.5bn loan with 21 international banks, with one of those also selling over $2.3bn of MTNs for the issuer, showing that banks’ jitters about supporting Qatari entities in the wake of the dispute between the sultanate and six other Arab states have partly been assuaged. Bianca Boorer and Virginia Furness report.
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Hurtigruten, the Norwegian cruise operator owned by TDR Capital, has agreed on final pricing on a €660m leveraged loan facility, raising enough debt to repay all its high yield bonds.
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The sharp falls in global equity markets over the past week have dimmed some of the optimism around this year’s syndicated loan market in Europe, as lenders worry that chief executives will postpone IPO plans — and the growth financing required immediately after going public.
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German robotics maker Kuka has signed a refinancing facility, ramping up the size of its syndicated bank borrowing by €120m.
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There is a hiatus in the Schuldschein new issue market, as the slew of transactions launched in January are weighed up and processed before settlement dates. Amid the calm, Schuldschein bankers are beginning to question whether the unrated bond market is a threat.
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