UPDATE 1-Banks in stand-off with Etisalat Nigeria over problem loan | Reuters:
"Nigerian banks have opposed a proposal by Etisalat Nigeria to convert part of a $1.2 billion loan from dollars into naira and want Abu Dhabi telecoms group Etisalat and its other shareholders to recapitalise it instead, a source said. A banker with knowledge of the negotiations told Reuters that the seven-year syndicated loan, on which Etisalat Nigeria missed a payment, has a dollar portion of $235 million which the telecoms operator wants to convert into naira to overcome hard currency shortages on Nigeria's interbank market. "Etisalat is asking for us to convert the dollar component to naira but banks don't want that option and have told them to talk to their parent to settle the loan," the source said, adding that regulators favoured the conversion."
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