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Singtel signs $1.2 billion credit facility from diverse lender pool

FILE PHOTO: A man looks out of the window under a Singtel signage at their head office in Singapore February 12, 2015. REUTERS/Edgar Su/File Photo · Reuters

May 29 (Reuters) - Singapore Telecommunications said on Friday that its ‌treasury unit signed a ‌S$1.5 billion ($1.17 billion) credit facility agreement with ​11 banks.

Here are the details:

• Singtel Group Treasury signed the three-year committed revolving credit facility ‌with lenders including ⁠the Singapore branches of ANZ, Bank of America, ⁠ICBC, Standard Chartered, Westpac, HSBC, and local majors Oversea-Chinese Banking ​Corp and ​United Overseas ​Bank.

• The agreement ‌comes as Singtel shuffles around capital, having laid out a S$3 billion capital spending plan for 2027, of which S$1.2 ‌billion would be allocated ​to data centres ​and ​AI-related purposes.

• Earlier this ‌month, the group said ​it was ​also looking to sell a minority stake in Australian ​unit Optus.

($1 = ‌1.2776 Singapore dollars)

(Reporting by Nichiket ​Sunil in Bengaluru; Editing ​by Vijay Kishore)

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