South Africa sukuk starting point up for debate
The Republic of South Africa started execution on its first ever sukuk on Tuesday. Debt bankers away from the bond saw the starting point 30bp back of the sovereign's conventional curve. But syndicate officials on the deal said the sukuk had started 20bp wide of where a conventional note in the same tenor would be priced.
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