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  • Assets invested in compliance with Shariah will increase by 38.5% to reach $1.8tr globally in 2013, according to Ernst & Young . In its latest World Islamic Banking Competitiveness report, the accounting and financial services firm said that Saudi Arabia has become the largest market for such assets, with around $207bn last year, while Malaysia had $106bn and the UAE around $75bn.
  • Global sukuk issuance in 2012 has reached $138.5bn, according to the IFIS Sukuk Database, with a run of Asian deals this month taking the market further into record territory. The running total represents a 49% increase on the $93bn issued throughout the whole of 2011.
  • Dana Gas has completed a $920m sukuk restructuring with creditors, having defaulted on the notes in early November. The Sharjah based company will pay down $70m in cash and issue two new $425m five year sukuk - one ordinary and one convertible - paying 9% and 7% respectively. The previous deal's coupon was 7.5%.
  • Indonesian palm oil producer First Resources has issued MR400m ($130.8m) of sukuk, its second ringgit denominated Islamic deal. The notes come under a MR2bn sukuk musharakah programme the company established in July.
  • JCR-VIS assigns local currency ratings on a national scale. Local currency rating on a national scale assumes the national government to be least risky, which is therefore implicitly assigned a 'کAAA' rating. These ratings represent an entity's ability to meet its domestic obligations in the local currency.
  • JCR-VIS assigns local currency ratings on a national scale. Local currency rating on a national scale assumes the national government to be least risky, which is therefore implicitly assigned a 'کAAA' rating. These ratings represent an entity's ability to meet its domestic obligations in the local currency.