Aziz Dean This is Me

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1. 1. www.nzherald.co.nz

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   Published on: 3/15/2007   Last Visited: 3/15/2007

   "There are a lot of private companies in Australia, and a lot of them will be thinking, how can I go do what Stokes and Packer did," said Aziz Dean, managing director, fixed income capital markets, at Citigroup CIB in Sydney.

2. 2. www2.insto.com.au

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   Published on: 10/1/2006   Last Visited: 12/1/2007

   The panelists were (Left to right): Aziz Dean, managing director, fixed income capital markets, Citigroup; John Hudson, executive director, syndication corporate and structured financing, ANZ Investment Bank; Wayne Green, head of Australian syndications, BNP Paribas; Steve Hughes, head of Asia Pacific loan markets, The Royal Bank of Scotland; Andrew McDonald, head of syndications and leveraged finance, Westpac Institutional Bank.
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   Aziz Dean "The syndicated loan market is the deepest capital market in the world." - Aziz Dean Dean (Citigroup) The main driving factor has been M&A (mergers and acquisitions), which is where loans probably add most value.

3. 3. CFO | Fill your boots

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   Published on: 12/12/2003   Last Visited: 12/12/2003

   Aziz Dean, head of global loans at Citigroup, concurs, commenting that a review of recent non-bank bond issuers is a who's who of the bank loan market.
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   Dean says that Australian banks have responded to the perceived threat from the US private placement market in two ways - by forming joint ventures with US banks to take their domestic clients to the US market, and by pricing bilateral loans more aggressively. He says the volume of syndicated lending is way down, with just $US14.7 billion done in the year to date. 'In fact even many of these are bilateral or club loans and that is where the very tight pricing and terms and conditions are being seen,' says Dean.
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   In addition to the high liquidity of the domestic banks, Asian banks are also hungry for Australian assets. 'Before the Asian crisis, few Asian banks showed interest in Australia,' says Dean, 'but now Australian assets have an important place in their portfolios from both pricing and risk mitigation perspectives.'
   
   Opinion is mixed about the future direction of syndicated loan margins. Arguing against further spread compression is the view that volumes will rebound next year and the fact that internal return models are an increasingly important part of the pricing process. However, Dean says that the keen appetite from Australian and Asian banks, coupled with very strong demand in the bond markets, has created a trifecta of demand factors. 'I believe there is still downward pressure on syndications because in these circumstances there is no way that loan prices can be sustained at current levels.'