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  • With the first half of the year completed, regular IFIS league table-topper HSBC has taken a commanding lead in dollar sukuk for share of total issuance value, but Emirates NBD and JP Morgan have surged up the ranks for first ever top five placings, with ENBD on more dollar deals in the period than any other bank. Meanwhile, CIMB has opened a gap in global sukuk arranging after trailing Maybank at this time last year, but the competition looks set to heat up further in the second half.
  • The government of Sharjah, the United Arab Emirates’ third biggest economy, will issue its first ever sovereign sukuk in September or October, according to market rumours and a banker with knowledge of the matter.
  • Turkey's state-owned Halkbank has signed an $807m-equivalent dollar and euro loan, GlobalCapital reports.
  • It is a fine testament to the growing stature of the Islamic finance market that various novel borrowers are pressing ahead with plans to issue international sukuk for the first time — the likes of Hong Kong, Luxembourg and Dogus Group among them. But with so many debut deals revving up to join an autumnal convoy, those that can beat the traffic are advised to do so.
  • Cagamas, the National Mortgage Corporation of Malaysia, has issued MR395m of one, two and three year commodity murabaha sukuk.
  • Standard Chartered’s Islamic business arm Saadiq has launched its first ever retail banking centre in the United Arab Emirates.