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Near $1bn attrition from an order book on Tuesday shows buyers have limits
Another Dubai real estate firm priced fresh sukuk well inside its curve
After a very busy period since June began, the pipeline has thinned out
Another Saudi lender is preparing a senior debut
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The Republic of South Africa printed a debut sukuk this week, which represented a tightly priced first foray into a new investor base for the issuer and a benchmark for the country’s corporates to follow, said bankers on the deal. But their counterparts away from the transaction questioned the claims of tight pricing and pointed to what they saw as a sour performance in the secondary market. -
The Islamic Development Bank (IsDB) opened books on a new benchmark sukuk on Wednesday that could take international sukuk issuance to a new monthly record.
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Goldman Sachs printed a successful debut sukuk this week, which debt bankers and structurers involved in the transaction are hoping can help draw other western issuers into a rapidly broadening sukuk market. But syndicate officials away from the trade disputed claims that pricing was flat to a theoretical conventional bond, and felt a poor first day’s trading meant the sukuk was not a success in the secondary market.
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South Africa priced a $500m debut sukuk to yield 3.9% on Wednesday afternoon — a landmark deal in a continent enjoying an influx of Islamic money. But as with other inaugural sukuk offerings there was no hint of consensus over the sukuk’s concession to the conventional curve.
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Luxembourg has set dates for investor meetings ahead of the first euro denominated sukuk from a sovereign entity, and the prospective five year bond could be priced flat to mid-swaps, said a banker on the deal.
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The South Africa sukuk might well go fine, but that doesn’t mean it was a good idea. The country is in no position to pay away basis points for spurious long term diversification benefits, and has no ambition to build a domestic Islamic finance market.
