June, 2017

• 13 June

  Credit Agricole plans part sale of Saudi Fransi stake

  

  Bloomberg Credit Agricole SA is considering selling part of its 31 percent stake in Saudi Arabian lender Banque Saudi Fransi, reversing earlier plans to completely exit the business, according to people familiar with the matter. France’s second-largest lender has discussed the partial sale of its Saudi operations with the country’s central bank, and has started talking to potential buyers, the ...

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• 13 June

  Deutsche offers ex-managers portion of their bonuses

  

  Bloomberg Deutsche Bank AG Chairman Paul Achleitner has offered a good news-bad news deal to former management board members: We’ll pay the unvested portion of your bonuses if you give up claims to payments withheld by the lender. The proposal is meeting resistance from some ex-board members with a larger share of the suspended bonus payments, said three people with ...

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• 13 June

  NBK makes takeover bid for state-owned rival

  

  Bloomberg Kenya’s biggest bank by assets offered to buy a state-owned lender as the industry struggles to cope with interest-rate caps that have cut profits and curbed lending. KCB Group Ltd. provided an expression of interest to the Treasury to acquire a controlling stake in National Bank of Kenya Ltd., Judith Odhiambo, a spokeswoman for Nairobi-based KCB, said in an ...

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• 13 June

  Nigeria bank divide widens as cash shortage chokes lenders

  

  Bloomberg The divide between the haves and the have-nots among Nigerian banks is widening. The country’s biggest lender is so flush with cash it plans to repay $400 million of bonds when they become due in November 2018 rather than raising additional debt, while the next two largest banks sold international bonds for the first time since 2014. At the ...

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• 13 June

  Jet.com to phase out all Costco items post Wal-Mart acquisition

  

  Bloomberg Wal-Mart Stores Inc.’s acquisition of Jet.com last year turbocharged its online business, but one element of Jet’s success hasn’t sat well at the parent company. Since its 2015 founding, Jet has carried a broad array of products under the Kirkland Signature brand, which is owned by Wal-Mart rival Costco Wholesale Corp. A recent search for ‘Kirkland Signature’ on Jet’s ...

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• 13 June

  Etisalat launches high throughput satellite at 170 Mbps

  Abu Dhabi / Emirates Business Etisalat announced the launch of a new class of High Throughput Satellite (HTS) service to provide high capacity, efficiency, performance and multi-band connectivity to address business segments in remote locations or harsh environment. The new first of a kind service provides customers with higher speeds, improved coverage and flexibility by maximising the VSAT throughput and ...

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• 13 June

  J Crew seeks debt swap to buy time as sales dive continues

  

  Bloomberg J. Crew Group Inc., struggling from almost three years’ worth of declining sales, asked bondholders to extend the maturity of $566.6 million in notes and said it planned to settle a lawsuit filed by lenders. The debt-laden retailer started a private offer to exchange 2019 pay-in-kind notes for an equity stake and bonds that mature in 2021. At least ...

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• 13 June

  Reliance Communication approaches Citic on GCX sale

  

  Bloomberg Billionaire Anil Ambani’s Reliance Communications Ltd. has approached Citic Telecom International Holdings Ltd. as it makes a fresh attempt to attract a buyer for its undersea cable unit, people with knowledge of the matter said. Reliance Communications is reaching out to potential acquirers for the Global Cloud Xchange business, known as GCX, as the Indian carrier explores further asset ...

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• 12 June

  MEA firms invest $10bn into system integration

  

  Dubai / Emirates Business The System Integrators (SI) services market in the Middle East and Africa (MEA) was valued at US$10.34 billion at the end of 2016, following a five-year growth spurt during which the market increased by a Compound Annual Growth Rate (CAGR) of 8.87%, posing huge opportunities to bring solutions to new sectors according to STME, the Middle ...

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• 12 June

  Markets gain AED4bn as Emaar spikes to AED7.8

  ABU DHABI / WAM Emaar is back in uptrends, spiking to a one-year high of AED7.83, continuing its rising streak since its announced plans earlier in the week to sell as much as 30 percent of its real estate development business in the country in an initial public offering in November. Driven by the prevailing high sentiments, the trading companies ...

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