Middle East Bonds
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Kuwaiti Burgan Bank is still looking for an opportunity to print its tier one perpetual note this week Emirates NBD's $500m perpetual — a comparable deal from Wednesday — having fallen 1.5 cash points in secondary trading since it was priced.
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Hong Kong’s landmark sukuk comes with a host of potential benefits for the wider Islamic finance market, Rafe Haneef, chief executive of HSBC Amanah Malaysia in Kuala Lumpur told IFIS. The deal’s success should help encourage other regional sovereigns to consider sukuk, but also has valuable implications for the dim sum and mainland Chinese markets. -
Emirates NBD sold a $500m tier one perpetual non-call six bond on Wednesday. It was priced flat to the borrower’s existing Basel II compliant note but bankers away from the deal said that it looked to have struggled throughout the execution process.
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The Emirate of Sharjah sold a $750m inaugural sukuk to a $7.8bn order book on Wednesday. The borrower brought in a host of conventional accounts in addition to a strong local bid, and watched its bond tighten 6bp in the secondary market despite pricing some 20bp-45bp inside the curves of regional comparables, according to debt bankers on the deal.
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The Kingdom of Bahrain set a benchmark for its borrowers to follow when it issued the country’s first 30 year bond this week. Movements in the underlying US Treasury market sidelined some emerging market accounts but a final book of almost $6bn ensured a minimal new issue premium for a bond providing an important reference point for Bahraini project finance.
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Abu Dhabi Commercial Bank returned to the dollar market on Tuesday and made a 50bp saving at the five year part of its curve. Middle Eastern spreads have come flying in over the past year and bankers said that the bond came at the tightest possible level.
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The Emirate of Sharjah sold a $750m inaugural sukuk off a $7.8bn order book on Wednesday. The borrower brought in a host of conventional accounts in addition to a strong local bid, and watched its bond tighten 6bp in the secondary market despite pricing some 20bp-45bp inside the curves of regional comparables, according to debt bankers on the deal.
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Emirates NBD launched a $500m perpetual bond on Wednesday afternoon having received over $1.3bn in orders for the old-style Basel II compliant note.
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The Kingdom of Bahrain will price its 30 year transaction at a yield of 6% on September 10. The offering is the first dollar bond from the country this year.
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The Emirate of Sharjah sold a $750m inaugural sukuk off a $7.8bn order book on Wednesday. The borrower brought in a host of conventional accounts in addition to a strong local bid, and watched its bond tighten 6bp in the secondary market despite pricing some 20bp-45bp inside the curves of regional comparables, according to debt bankers on the deal.
