South Africa
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South Africa is poised to lose its final investment grade rating when Moody's conducts a review of its score a week from Friday. That has the potential to throw South African borrowers' funding plans into chaos following a year of of healthy, tightly priced issuance. Mariam Meskin and Ross Lancaster report. -
Standard Bank is expected to raise $1bn in the loan market, up from an initial target of $500m, and slash the pricing of a three year loan by roughly 30bp.
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South Africa made its largest ever trip to capital markets on Monday, raising $5bn across two tranches. However, the size may have been too ambitious as the bonds suffered early in the secondary market. Although they have since recovered, some investors may be deterred from jumping into the rest of the week’s slew of deals.
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Standard Bank is set to raise at least $500m by the end of the year, the latest in a series of loans raised by South African banks in the past few months. The deal is expected to have tighter margins than its previous deals, according to market sources.
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South Africa is back in capital markets for the first time in over a year and the first time since its ratings were placed on negative outlook by Fitch.
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Rand Merchant Bank International Mauritius (RMBIM) has secured a $400m syndicated loan from international lenders, months after a transfer of dollar debt from FirstRand Bank. The deal marks the latest in a series of loans raised by South African banks this year.
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Omnia Holdings, the South African chemicals company, has fixed the terms for its R2bn ($136m) rights issue to reduce debt, after securing underwriting from its top shareholders.
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In an otherwise barren summer week for equity block trades in Europe, UBS led the sale on Thursday night of R1.4bn ($95.4m) of stock in Mondi, the Anglo-South African paper and packaging company, on behalf of a group of shareholders left out of a recent reorganisation of Mondi’s listing.
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BNP Paribas hires UK advisory head — Créd Ag’s credit unit chief moves to markets role — AIIB hires ICBC loan syndicator.
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Fitch downgraded its credit outlook of deeply-troubled South Africa on Friday, but loan bankers, both in and outside the country, are confident that a lack of primary EM supply and an established banking sector will keep margins tight and lenders attracted. At least for now.
