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The country offers huge potential and possible pitfalls for investors
A piece of very rare African senior bank issuance could also come this week
African issuers are dominating CEEMEA issuance
The company's curve has massively outperformed the South African sovereign this month
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Standard Chartered and Lonmin both begin new chapters in their stories today, with fresh capital from rights issues. In both cases the underwriting banks had to work for their fees, as the stories required explaining and each deal ended in a rump placement today.
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Ethos Private Equity sold in a block trade on Tuesday night its last shares in Transaction Capital, the Johannesburg-listed commercial finance company.
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Standard Chartered and Lonmin will each begin a new chapter in their stories on Friday, as results are published of their rights issues, books for which closed on Thursday.
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Anglo American’s announcement this week that it will increase its asset sales target to $4bn, as part of a plan to adjust to painfully lower minerals prices, is the latest sign of two trends that are expected to drive M&A activity and equity capital markets business in 2016: carve-outs and divestments of assets; and the shake-up in natural resources. -
South Africa is having rating trouble, and it looks serious. Since Friday, it is teetering on the edge of investment grade at both Standard & Poor’s and Fitch, a big problem for a country with a lot of infrastructure to build. But South Africa’s woes don't go too deep, and the country's growth could bounce back quickly.
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The Egyptian loan market is showing signs of recovery with deals from Banque Misr and National Bank of Egypt in recent months. Bankers say there is more to come in 2016.
