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Qatar’s Commercial Bank in talks for $1 billion loan – sources

moutasem quffa by moutasem quffa
September 20, 2018
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FILE PHOTO: A trader looks at share prices on an electronic display at the Doha Stock Exchange, Qatar January 18, 2016. REUTERS/Naseem Zeitoon/Fiel Photo

FILE PHOTO: A trader looks at share prices on an electronic display at the Doha Stock Exchange, Qatar January 18, 2016. REUTERS/Naseem Zeitoon/Fiel Photo

DUBAI (Reuters) – Commercial Bank <COMB.QA>, Qatar‘s third-largest lender by assets, is in early talks with banks to refinance a $1 billion syndicated loan, sources close to the matter said.

The deal would be the second significant syndicated loan raised by Qatari banks over the next few months, as sources told Reuters this week that Qatar National Bank <QNBK.QA>, the Middle East’s largest lender, plans to refinance a 2.25 billion euro ($2.64 billion) facility due in May next year.

Commercial Bank’s loan would replace an existing facility due in December this year. Discussions for the refinancing are at an early stage, said the sources.

A Commercial Bank spokesman did not immediately respond to a request for comment.

Following a plunge in oil prices in 2014 and the subsequent withdrawal of some government deposits from the banking system, Qatari banks have increasingly funded themselves through international bonds and loans.

But a diplomatic crisis which erupted in the Gulf last year has made some regional and international lenders more cautious about their exposure to Qatari borrowers.

Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates, Bahrain and Egypt cut diplomatic and transport ties with Qatar in June last year. They accused it of backing terrorism, a charge that Doha denies.

The UAE central bank last year blacklisted some Qatari individuals and organisations and told its own banks to apply enhanced due diligence in their dealings with six Qatari banks: Qatar Islamic Bank, Qatar International Islamic Bank, Barwa Bank, Masraf Al Rayan, Qatar National Bank and Doha Bank.

Banks from the four Arab boycotting countries have pulled deposits from Qatar and reduced, though not ended, other business with it.

One of the sources familiar with the new loan discussions said it was not clear at this stage whether UAE lenders would participate in the deal, but that this was unlikely to be an obstacle to finding enough liquidity among lenders for the planned deal.

Commercial Bank’s existing $1 billion loan, signed in 2015, was provided by a group of 14 regional and international banks, according to Thomson Reuters data. The group included United Arab Emirates lenders National Bank of Abu Dhabi – now merged into a new entity, First Abu Dhabi Bank – and Union National Bank.

($1 = 0.8535 euros)

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