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Investors were eager to tender their bonds despite initial resistance
Inclusion of a variable rate instrument was not acceptable to official creditors
Oil producer's cost of funding has fallen hundreds of basis points since February
Sovereign's Eurobond began about 40bp back of fair value, said leads
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Price talk for Senegal’s new euro bond prompted fierce debate on Tuesday morning. Based on guidance, syndicate bankers away from the deal questioned the cost of the deal compared with a dollar issue, though the strong pricing result in euros may have put the debate to rest. -
Standard Bank’s Kenya branch is looking to raise $100m in the loan market, ahead of a maturity coming up for one of its loans in October.
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Republic of Senegal could well have timed to perfection its plans to issue a euro-denominated bond with EM investors calling this the “last chance” for EM borrowers to take advantage of extraordinarily low interest rates in the currency.
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Eskom, the South African state electricity company, signed a R20bn ($1.7bn) syndicated loan on Wednesday, a day after S&P downgraded it.
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Emerging market bonds have been buoyed by several positives in key markets this week including a cabinet reshuffle in South Africa that has seen the return of respected former finance minister Nhlanhla Nene, and the upgrade of Russia to investment grade by S&P.
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Seplat Petroleum Development, a Nigerian oil and gas exploration and production company, is lining up its first international bond which will also be the first non-financial corporate bond from Africa this year.
