Last Updated March 12, 2009
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.
