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Central Asia

  • Four decades after declaring independence, a successful Eurobond issue and major reforms show Uzbekistan is finally growing up and engaging with the world on its own terms
  • After being off limits to foreign investors for many years, Uzbekistan has raced to catch up for lost time by seeking investments by European banks and international financial institutions
  • After decades of self-imposed isolation, Uzbekistan is embarking on a range of projects with the help of Chinese assistance — and finance — to slowly start to stitch a recently remote country back into the global economy
  • Since late 2016, Uzbekistan has embarked on large-scale institutional, economic and social reforms under President Mirziyoyev’s administration.
  • Uzbekistan is now the focus of emerging and frontier markets, as international investors, buoyed by the success of Kazakhstan’s privatisation programme, clamber to be in the first wave of opportunities the country is to offer, writes Sam Kerr.
  • Yellow Cake, a London-listed company operating in the uranium sector, completed a £25.9m share sale on Friday to continue funding uranium purchases from Kazakh uranium producer Kazatomprom.
  • JPM securitization banker leaves — Goldman Brexiter quits for politics — Balax enrols in fintech course
  • After six months running the Uzbekistan’s newly created debt management office, ex-HSBC DCM banker Odilbek Isakov has become the country's deputy finance minister.
  • Kazakhstan’s privatisation programme is set to continue, despite the decision of its president Nursultan Nazarbayev to step down from that position on Tuesday, according to ECM bankers and investors.
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  • Uzbekistan opened a new chapter in emerging market bonds on Wednesday, printing a $1bn dual tranche deal. Market participants are expecting a swathe of other issuers from the country to follow the sovereign into the capital markets, although soggy trading on Thursday has stiffened investor resolve to hold firmer on pricing on subsequent Uzbek deals, writes Francesca Young.
  • In the emerging markets over the past year the art of bond investing has often felt like perfecting the skill of mitigating disaster — of knowing when to catch a falling knife or jump on a rebound before everyone else does.