Middle East Bonds
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Dubai should push on with its plan to create a central Shariah board. Although the emirate has made good progress in striving to become the self-styled “centre for the Islamic economy”, the time is ripe for a breakthrough that would create a lasting legacy. -
Saudi Arabian fashion retailer AlHokair began meeting with local investors on Tuesday as it looks to issue a debut sukuk. AlHokair has asked Samba Capital to arrange the deal.
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The Central Bank of Bahrain has sold BD36m ($95.5m) of short term sukuk al salam at a tighter yield of 0.73% and with more orders than last month’s issue.
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Russian Sberbank Asset Management and Invest AD, the Abu Dhabi Investment Company, have signed a Memorandum of Strategic Cooperation. The document establishes areas of co-operation between the two companies in Russia, the CIS, and Middle East.
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Luxembourg’s KBL Private Bankers dropped out as a dealer when International Islamic Liquidity Management Corporation (IILM) returned to the market on Thursday with its rolling $490m short term sukuk.
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Turkiye Finans looks set to become Turkey’s first participation bank to enter the Malaysian sukuk market as it received an AA3/Stable rating for its proposed MR3bn ($930m) sukuk programme from RAM Ratings.
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Two key growth areas for international capital markets are set come together in the first green and socially responsible sukuk offerings, writes Dan Alderson. The World Bank is endorsing the product through involvement in two new projects due this year.
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This week’s unveiling of socially responsible investment and green sukuk projects at the Islamic Financial Services Board by the World Bank put an inspiring twist in the essence of what Islamic finance is meant to be about — ethical investment, lest anyone had forgotten. But it also illuminated the catchword the IFSB most wants to promote: inclusivity.
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Two key growth areas for international capital markets are set come together in the first green and socially responsible sukuk offerings, writes Dan Alderson. The World Bank is endorsing the product through involvement in two new projects due this year.
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Saudi real estate firm Dar Al Arkan built a book of $1bn for its $400m five year sukuk late on Wednesday evening. The deal was printed with a yield of 6.75%, in line with guidance.
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A surge of Kangaroo bonds from the Middle East is only the first wave in the Aussie dollar market’s expansion into new regions and new borrowers, debt bankers told GlobalCapital this week. Abu Dhabi Commercial Bank took MENA Kanga supply to well over A$1.3bn so far this year, and the tight pricing and deep demand on offer is prompting financials and corporates from across emerging markets to put programmes in place. Steven Gilmore reports.
