UAE News: NMC Health Owes Abu Dhabi Commercial Bank $1 Billion - Bloomberg:
Abu Dhabi Commercial Bank PJSC has more than $1 billion of exposure to troubled hospital operator NMC Health Plc, potentially putting one of the Middle East’s biggest financial institutions on the hook for losses on the debt, people familiar with the matter said.
The state-owned lender is currently seen as one of the biggest creditors to NMC, according to the people, who asked not to be identified because the information is private. HSBC Holdings Plc, JPMorgan Chase & Co. and Standard Chartered Plc also have large outstanding loans to the Abu Dhabi-based company, the people said.
Some of the lenders are in talks to set up a committee to discuss ways to recover funds from NMC, according to the people. The company’s known debt pile has more than tripled in recent weeks to $6.6 billion, up from the $2.1 billion reported at the end of June, after it successively uncovered borrowings that hadn’t been disclosed to the board.
Shares of Abu Dhabi Commercial Bank fell 4.9% at 1:24 p.m. Tuesday local time, giving the lender a market value of about $8.8 billion. The benchmark ADX General Index fell 0.3%.
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