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  • At least three bank issuers across CEEMEA this week sold bonds of all different varieties. Emirates Development Bank, Ecobank Transnational and Ahli United Bank all tapped investors for dollar bonds.
  • Georgian Railway and Togo-headquartered Ecobank Transnational launched a green bond and a sustainability-linked bond, respectively, on Thursday.
  • Emerging market fixed income analysts are right to assert that the asset class is well placed to avoid a taper tantrum such as it endured in 2013. That does not mean issuers should not be hurrying up their funding plans.
  • Ecobank Transnational is planning to debut in the sustainability bond market as Kuwait's Ahli United Bank prepares to enter the market for a sukuk. Emerging market issuers are continuing to flood the market amid concerns from some about the Federal Reserve tapering its asset purchase programme.
  • Emerging market borrowers are flocking to the primary bond markets as ever more participants predict the US Federal Reserve will begin tapering its monetary stimulus, something that traditionally rings loud alarm bells for the asset class.
  • The Republic of Senegal raised €775m on Wednesday in a deal that achieved a negative new issue premium of 25bp, according to bookrunners. Investors’ appetite for high yielding emerging market credit remains robust despite lingering concerns over developed market inflation and central bank tapering.