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Private placements are not unknown for CEE sovereigns, but this is the biggest for years
Market participants have highlighted drop in Uzbek bond volumes this year
Uzbek issuance has fallen to near zero after a busy few years
Bookbuilding slower than normal due to the restart of war between the US and Iran
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Turkish state owned bank Ziraat is set to unveil plans to launch an Islamic banking business in the coming days, according to a spokesperson at the bank. -
The efforts of six or seven European banks to keep the Russian loan markets afloat, despite a worsening outlook, were rewarded this week: Gazprom Neft requested bank proposals on a new five year money loan. But normalisation is further off than ever.
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European Central Bank president Mario Draghi’s admission last week that inflation expectations are not well anchored has bolstered the prospects for a quantitative easing (QE) programme. But what to buy remains the thorny question.
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The deepening crisis between Russia and Ukraine escalated further this week and talks at the Minsk summit achieved little. But despite the lengthening odds, new Russian loan deals are still coming through and six – or possibly seven – European banks are widely held to be working hard to keep the market going.
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September looks set to field a rush of Turkish bank loans, with Vakifbank adding its name to the institutions already in the market for the year’s second wave of refinancings.
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The international Russian syndicated loan market is in dreadful shape, as relations between Russia and the west plumb new depths. Lending banks are trying to reorient their personnel and capital to other regions — Africa and the Middle East are natural places to turn. But while they could be promising areas of growth in the future, banks should be wary of quick fixes.
