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Books over $1.5bn at launch at a spread of 80bp over Treasuries
Gulf issuance will take a pause due to the Eid holiday next weekend, but June could be busy
EM investors may be happy to see some senior supply after glut of tightly priced AT1
Strong local bids enable AT1 sukuk issuers to set yields far below where overseas buyers see fair value
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Vakifbank will apply to Turkish authorities to establish a participation bank with $300m equivalent of paid up capital and a registered capital ceiling of TL1bn ($432m), the bank announced this week.Meanwhile, rival Turkish Islamic financial Bank Asya, while responding to an official investigation of its Bursa branch, completed a capital raise and announced the sale of a stake in Tamweel Africa Holding. -
Pakistani insurer IGI Life Insurance (IGI) plans to start a takaful business, subject to regulatory approval.
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Debt bankers away from Dubai Islamic Bank’s perpetual sukuk roadshow are eying the deal as an indicator of what Middle East primary pricing will look like after the huge drop in oil prices zaps liquidity in the region.
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Dubai Islamic Bank (DIB) has picked banks for a tier one dollar sukuk, and is preparing to kick off what debt bankers expect to be a rush of tier one issuance in conventional and Islamic format from the Middle East.
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China’s Ningxia Hui Autonomous Region (Ningxia) is looking for new funding channels in 2015 and could opt for sukuk and/or conventional offshore dollar bonds for total funding of $1.5bn. A sukuk deal would make Ningxia the first ever Chinese issuer of sukuk, and tapping the offshore market would make it the first Chinese sub-sovereign issuer to tap overseas markets without using a subsidiary company as the issuing vehicle.
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Bangladesh’s central bank has started providing regular auctions of Islamic bonds for domestic banks with Islamic operations to buy.
