HONG KONG/SINGAPORE, July 17 (LPC) - Two large leveraged financings are taking shape in India, providing a welcome vote of confidence for the country's loan market amid the coronavirus pandemic.
* Loans: Three underwrite CP Group's US$10.6bn Tesco Asia buy
* Loans: Berli Jucker eyes record US$10bn loan for Tesco's Asian business
* Loans: Frequent borrowers benefit from rising international demand
* Loans: Banks eye potential financing for HK bourse’s high-profile LSE bid
HONG KONG, Aug 30 (LPC) - Australian superannuation fund First State Super is planning to ramp up its domestic loan investments in the next two to three years, adding to the growing pool of non-bank investors as the country’s institutional investor base continues to grow.
* Loans: Banks eye opportunity to refinance ¥1.2trn acquisition financing
HONG KONG, June 28 (LPC) - Syndicated lending in Asia Pacific, excluding Japan, fell to a seven-year low, with only US$198.52bn raised in the first six months of 2019 as the global economy reeled from the effects of the ongoing trade war between the US and China.
* Loans: Casino operator back after seven years for S$8bn debt combo
HONG KONG, June 6 (LPC) - Indian non-banking financial companies are making a beeline for the international loan markets in search of alternative funding sources, even as questions swirl over lenders' appetite for the country's financial sector.
State prosecutors in Russia asked a judge on Monday to jail Kremlin critic Alexei Navalny for 30 days, after he was detained the previous evening at a Moscow airport when flying home for the first time since he was poisoned last summer.