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Business has sagged in the third quarter, but the pipeline is busy, despite an intractable war
BNP Paribas and National Bank of Greece led $263m facility, Bahri's first international syndication
First refinancing since Fitch upgrade in December has been well received
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French telecoms firm SFR launched a $2.4bn-equivalent refinancing with a lender call on Tuesday afternoon, aiming to lower margins by as much as 100bp despite a poor performance this year, while Eircom closed its repricing on Wednesday evening. -
SMBC has hired Barclays’ head of private loan sales, who had worked at the bank for 10 years before his departure.
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Ojer Telekomunikasyon (Otas), the majority owner of Turk Telekom, failed to make a $290m payment on a $4.75bn loan which was signed in September 2013, according to a news report on Wednesday. But two bankers were quick to say that Otas's fate was not indicative of all Turkish borrowers.
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Finnish packaging firm Powerflute held bank meetings in London on Thursday afternoon for its €315m loan package backing its acquisition by Madison Dearborn Partners, as the LBO pipeline in Europe builds.
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Ecom Agroindustrial, the Switzerland based commodities trader, has concluded the refinancing of a $635m one year loan, drawing in six new banks.
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The Green Climate Fund, set up by the United Nations as a channel for money to help developing countries fight and cope with climate change, has chosen a new executive director.
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