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Issuer has set the stage for peers to return to public market
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  • Over the past year, Asian investors have become pickier about which Gulf credits they buy, and it has felt to some in emerging market bonds that marketing Middle East issuers to them can be futile. But a storming success for Mashreqbank this week demonstrated that engaging Asian investors is worth the jet lag.
  • Additional tier ones couldn’t have reacted any more calmly to the first ever extension of a deal this week, but the market is still a long way from overcoming its ultimate test.
  • 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.
  • Many of the assumptions that surrounded older iterations of perpetual bank capital instruments are still there in the new class of additional tier one securities.