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The National Shipping Co of Saudi Arabia (Bahri) has signed a SR3.18bn ($849m) murabaha bridge financing facility with three local banks to finance its $1.3bn merger with Vela, a subsidiary of Saudi Aramco.
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United Arab Emirates bank Al Hilal tightened guidance on its benchmark tier one perpetual sukuk to 5.75% area and capped the size of the deal at $500m. The bank expects to price the deal, which is the first Islamic tier one out of the UAE since Dubai Islamic Bank brought $1bn in March last year, as early as Tuesday.
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Islamic Bank of Britain, the UK’s only retail Islamic bank, has made Sultan Choudhury its chief executive officer.
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Turkish participation bank Albaraka Turk (rated BB by Standard & Poor’s) has given revised official guidance of 6.25% area on its five year benchmark sukuk, with pricing expected to follow on Tuesday.
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Luxembourg has rekindled its debut sovereign sukuk push, with its finance committee having nominated a new figurehead for the project and elected to revise its plans. -
The United Kingdom has pulled ahead decisively in the lop-sided race to issue the first Western sovereign sukuk, writes Dan Alderson. Tiny rival Luxembourg could only look on this week as UK borrowing officials roadshowed the groundbreaking offering across six Gulf and Asian money centres in three days — bolstering London’s bid for regional leadership in Islamic finance.
