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Turkish oil and gas firm offers a pickup to its parent and most other CEEMEA sukuk
Where the company's deal prices relative to its parent will be the topic of investor roadshows
Benin showed Islamic issuance is a viable market for sub-Saharan African sovereigns
Investors are still showing big demand for the Dubai real estate firm's sukuk despite two sell-offs in a year
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  • The Republic of Turkey re-opened the CEEMEA bond market in 2015 on Wednesday with a $1.5bn tap of its 2043s. Turbulence across EM and falling oil prices played to Turkey’s favour with the bond offering a haven to nervous investors. But as a result of the recent volatility, the country paid a decent new issue premium, bringing in a $5bn book.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 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.