Hyundai units in liquidity crunch
Two Hyundai units have been forced to obtain additional overdraft facilities in order to meet bond repayments as mutual fund redemptions show little sign of slowing in South Korea.
Hyundai Engineering and Construction (HEC) and Hyundai Merchant Marine (HMM) have had to secure additional short-term overdraft facilities from creditor banks in order to see off the threat of default on maturing bonds. The state-owned Korea Exchange Bank and other banks have agreed to lend an extra W350 billion ($307 million) to the two companies, which have been unable to roll over their bonds as investment trust corporations (ITCs), the biggest buyers of corporate paper in South Ko…
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