Middle East Bonds
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Oman could launch its first public market sukuk as early as next week following the announcement of plans for an investor call to be held on Monday. -
Gulf banks brought much needed variety to the sukuk market this week with single-A rated Qatar Islamic and double-B rated Albaraka Banking Group offering debt at both ends of the rating and capital spectra.
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Oman Electricity Transmission Company seems to have timed it right for a $500m 10 year trade just days before a likely sovereign downgrade, with the issuer managing to price its deal well inside where analysts spotted fair value.
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Oman Electricity Transmission Company timed it right for a $500m 10 year trade on Tuesday just days before a likely sovereign downgrade, with the issuer managing to price its deal well inside where analysts spotted fair value.
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New deals from the Middle East and Africa are beginning to flow as EM’s hot run gathers momentum. In the Gulf Cooperation Council, Saudi Electricity Co (Seco) and Oman Electricity Transmission are exploring dollar opportunities as Abu Dhabi Commercial Bank plots a comeback. Further south and west, Senegal has picked leads for a dollar comeback as the market awaits the results of Ivory Coast’s RFP.
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Saudi Arabia’s ACWA Power priced its long awaited debut bond on Wednesday, raising $814m with the secured note. Months of work spent structuring the deal and educating investors were rewarded, with the borrower achieving a combination of size and price it would not have managed with a plain vanilla bond, said a lead banker.
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Saudi’s ACWA Power priced its long awaited debut bond on Wednesday, raising $814m with the secured note. Months of work spent structuring the deal and educating investors were rewarded, with the borrower achieving a combination of size and price it would not have managed with a plain vanilla bond, according to a lead banker.
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The bond pipeline in CEEMEA is light with only well flagged borrowers opening books in a week that is peppered with data points and political risk events.
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Orders of over $1.5bn enabled Saudi Arabia’s ACWA Power to squeeze down guidance for its amortising note on Wednesday.
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Middle Eastern governments and companies rose to the financing challenge set by falling oil prices in 2016, rethinking their operations, cutting costs and turning to the international bond markets in committed fashion to plug funding gaps. Issuers in the Gulf Cooperation Council countries raised $66bn last year, and this year’s first quarter total of nearly $25bn suggests issuance will be similarly high in 2017.
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New deals from the Middle East are beginning to flow. Saudi Arabia's International Company for Water and Power Projects (ACWA Power) opened books on a conventional amortising note on Tuesday, as Saudi Electricity Co (Seco) and Oman Electricity Transmission line up sukuk trades.
