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The country is unlikely to issue new dollar bonds in the near future despite a big rally in yields
Underwriting left unused after deal is 33% oversubscribed
Simbah Mutasa and Sjoerd Van Hooijdonk step up from regional leadership roles
New government is seeking an IMF deal, which will likely require a debt rework
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The Republic of South Africa started execution on its first ever sukuk on Tuesday. Debt bankers away from the bond saw the starting point 30bp back of the sovereign's conventional curve. But syndicate officials on the deal said the sukuk had started 20bp wide of where a conventional note in the same tenor would be priced.
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South African prepared meal firm Rhodes Food opened books on an IPO on Monday that could value it at around R1.1bn ($99.7m).
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South African gold miner AngloGold Ashanti has pulled a plan that would have seen it launch a $2bn capital raise alongside a wholesale restructuring after investors balked at the plan.
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The Republic of South Africa has set the tenor on its prospective debut sukuk, and plans to release initial price thoughts early this week. The borrower’s conventional bonds widened 5bp Monday, which some debt bankers away from the deal ascribed to the National Treasury’s plan to close the funding gap for state electricity provider Eskom. But others argued it was in line with wider market weakness.
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Nigerian interdealer broker Parthian Partners has signed a joined venture agreement with global interdealer broker Tullett Prebon, which could boost liquidity in the country’s interest rate derivatives and non-deliverable forwards.
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Ghana's lead managers defended what looked like a low multiple of oversubscription on the sovereign's Thursday $1bn bond deal as they released the final book size, pointing to the quality of the orders received.