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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 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. -
Goldman Sachs priced a $500m debt sukuk deal on Monday with just a 5bp premium over its conventional curve.
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The Republic of South Africa started execution on its first ever sukuk on Tuesday. Debt bankers away from the bond saw the starting point 30bp back of the sovereign's conventional curve. But syndicate officials on the deal said the sukuk had started 20bp wide of where a conventional note in the same tenor would be priced.
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The Republic of South Africa has set the tenor on its prospective debut sukuk, and plans to release initial price thoughts early this week. The borrower’s conventional bonds widened 5bp Monday, which some debt bankers away from the deal ascribed to the National Treasury’s plan to close the funding gap for state electricity provider Eskom. But others argued it was in line with wider market weakness.
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Turkish lender Aktif Bank has signed a $45m murabaha export financing agreement with the International Islamic Trade Finance Cooperation (ITFC). Additional support for Turkish exports is badly needed — Turkish GDP growth has slowed to well below the government’s 2014 target level, and recent data indicates that exports are one of the few areas of the economy preventing a deeper drop, said emerging market analysts.
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Bahraini Islamic lender Ibdar Bank has appointed Basel Al-Haj-Issa as its new chief executive.
