ByteDance seeks a record $20bn offshore loan to fund its AI build-out
ByteDance is in preliminary talks with banks about an offshore loan of roughly $20bn, which would be the largest the TikTok owner has ever raised, Bloomberg reported on Wednesday, citing people familiar with the discussions.
The company is said to be seeking a facility with a three-year tenor and an option to extend it to as long as five years. ByteDance did not immediately respond to a request for comment. The number is the headline, and it is a large one.
A $20bn facility would nearly double the roughly $9.5bn loan ByteDance arranged in September 2024, which at the time stood as the biggest dollar-denominated corporate loan in Asia outside Japan.
That earlier deal, coordinated by Citigroup, Goldman Sachs, and JPMorgan, also carried a three-year term extendable to five, and part of its proceeds went to refinancing an existing facility rather than to fresh spending.
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