OREANDA-NEWS. On April 01, 2008 Alliance Bank (LSE: ALLB), a leading Kazakh retail bank, announced that it has made two scheduled loan repayments totalling USD 131 million, reported the press-centre of Alliance Bank.

On March 20, 2008, Alliance Bank repaid the first USD85 million tranche of a USD 150 million Syndicated Wakala restricted with Commodity Murabaha Financing Facility.

On March 28, 2008 Alliance Bank fully repaid a Schuldschein syndicated loan worth USD46 million.

The Murabaha loan was raised in March 2007 with payments due in two tranches at 370 days and two years. CALYON acted as Bookrunner and ADIB acted as Shari’a Advisor. 19 lending banks from the Middle East were engaged in the transaction.

The Schuldschein syndicated loan had been raised in March 2006. The loan was arranged for the Bank by a syndicate of 17 investors for a period of two years. This facility was governed by German legislation with LandesBank Berlin AG acting as Lead Arranger of the transaction.