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Overview

Bank of China contributes 7.5 million USD to a 150 million USD syndicated loan for Liquid Telecom in December 2014

Commitments (Constant USD, 2023)$7,691,649
Commitment Year2014Country of ActivityMauritiusDirect Recipient Country of IncorporationMauritiusSectorCommunicationsFlow TypeLoan

Status

Project lifecycle

Completion

Pipeline: PledgePipeline: CommitmentImplementationCompletion

Timeline

Key dates

Commitment date
Jan 1, 2014
Last repayment
Dec 31, 2018

Stakeholders

Organizations involved in projects and activities supported by financial and in-kind transfers from Chinese government and state-owned entities

Funding agencies

State-owned Commercial Banks

  • Bank of China (BOC)

Cofinancing agencies

Private Sector

  • Afrasia Bank Limited
  • Barclays Bank PLC
  • Federated Project and Trade Finance Core Fund
  • Investec Bank Limited
  • Liberty Holdings Ltd
  • Sanlam Investment Management (Pty) Limited
  • Standard Bank
  • Standard Chartered Bank PLC

State-owned Banks

  • State Bank of India (SBI)

Receiving agencies

Private Sector

  • Liquid Intelligent Technologies

Loan desecription

Bank of China contributes to USD 150 million syndicated loan for Liquid Telecom in December 2014

Interest typeUnknownMaturity5 years

Narrative

Full Description

Project narrative

In December 2014, Bank of China contributed 7.5 million USD to a 150 million USD syndicated loan for Liquid Telecom, the Mauritius-headquartered fixed line provider. The loan was closed in the second half of December 2014, had a five-year maturity, and amortizing profile. 10 banks participated in the syndicate loan: Standard Chartered (lent 40 million USD), Standard Bank (29 million), Barclays (19 million), Investec (19 million), Liberty Holdings (12.5 million), AfrAsia Bank (6 million), Sanlam (6 million), State Bank of India (6 million), and Federated Project and Trade Finance (5 million).