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The subordinated debt premium was smaller than that offered by some other EM hybrid issuers
At London investor day, supranational reveals deals and plans for new funding and investments, including fully African project financing
The company is the only corporate issuer in North Africa, making it popular for investors
The company should benefit from a rise in fertiliser prices due to the Iran war
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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.
  • Egyptian finance minister Mohamed Maait tells GlobalMarkets about his plans to increase private sector participation in the economy and attract more foreign investment as he nears an agreement with the IMF for a new funding package
  • The World Bank is hoping to step up its activity as an intermediary in commodity hedging transactions, providing credit enhancements for its clients in their arrangements with insurers to protect them from external shocks
  • Kenya’s acting finance minister tells GlobalMarkets that he expects to conclude a new standby loan facility with the International Monetary Fund by the end of the year as part of a strategy to reduce its debt stock
  • Geopolitical issues such as the migration crisis has heightened the need for the European Investment Bank to launch facilities such as Economic Resilience Initiative fund to help attract private capital into the troubled North African region
  • Low interest rates have pushed investors to invest in riskier credit, flooding emerging market funds and driving down borrowing costs and causing debt stocks to climb, economists and investors have told GlobalMarkets