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Saudi state TV has set a date for the elusive Saudi Aramco IPO, talked up for more than three years — and it’s next week. The deal’s already threadbare rationale might dissolve at the first hint of scrutiny, but it’s too embarrassing to ditch it now. -
UniCredit’s search for a more efficient corporate structure shows how an incomplete Banking Union is beginning to weigh on pan-European financial institutions.
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Vietnamese borrowers have kept loans bankers busy amid a broader slowdown in the syndication market. But the welcome they have received so far from lenders may cool down faster than expected.
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Asian issuers tend to treat the 144A market as little more than a sideshow, rarely putting in the extra work to bring their deals to US investors. That needs to change.
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The World Bank’s pioneering pandemic bond has failed to recognise what the World Health Organisation has said is the second largest Ebola epidemic ever, which took place in the Democratic Republic of Congo. This is a gross failure, but the jury is still out on using such instruments to fund disaster response in the developing world.
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After another delay to the IPO of Saudi Aramco, Saudi Arabia’s crown prince Mohammed bin Salman (MBS) may have to accept that international fund managers may never value the kingdom’s prize asset as much as its royal family does, but local investors just might.
