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◆ Why emerging market issuers are doing less in dollars ◆ Republic of Congo located between rock and hard place ◆ The GlobalCapital Podcast was brought to you by the numbers 17, 100 and the whole Alphabet
The yield was ultra high but Congo had little room to manoeuvre
Benin showed Islamic issuance is a viable market for sub-Saharan African sovereigns
Observers have questioned why the country is issuing debt at this price
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Pan-Africa lender Guaranty Trust Bank has bought back $123.1bn of its outstanding bonds, making it the second African bank to address its upcoming maturities. Nigeria’s Fidelity Bank is looking to issue fresh debt to finance a buy-back of its $300m 2018s. -
With 65m people displaced worldwide, the refugee crisis can seem insurmountable. But despite this daunting scale, initiatives are being tried that could help some of those affected. Citigroup’s charitable foundation is giving $2m to a project to train refugees for the job market and entrepreneurship, in Greece, Jordan and Nigeria.
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Nigeria’s Fidelity Bank is planning to finance a buy-back of its $300m notes due 2018 with a new issue, as the country’s banks look to address upcoming maturities in 2018 and 2019.
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The European Bank for Reconstruction and Development is to lend Dh217m (€20m) to CaixaBank to fund small and medium enterprise (SME) lending in Morocco.
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Anil Agarwal, founder of mining group Vedanta Resources, has managed to surprise the stockmarket with the same trick twice. But as Jon Hay and Aidan Gregory write, his intentions in buying another £1.5bn of shares in Anglo American are anything but clear, and he is paying a high price for influence.
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Ghana Cocoa Board has signed its annual financing for its cocoa harvest at $1.3bn with 24 lenders, the 25th time the organisation has done the facility.
