Keeping Palestine talking

At the height of the Gaza conflict in January, Standard Bank joined forces with other international and Palestinian local banks to help close a US$85mn syndicated structured project financing facility to enable the build-out of a new mobile phone network in Palestine. The deal is one of the largest foreign direct investments made in the region, and the first cross-border agreement for the local Palestinian banking sector. Rebecca Spong speaks to the deal team to find out how they managed it.