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Benin reaped the rewards of its sukuk debut last week, and will do so for years to come
The Gulf kingdom is trying to tackle a very wide deficit and sky-high debt to GDP
Gulf investors 'will now look at every deal', whether sukuk or not
Demand from the Middle East for the sukuk was steady
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  • 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.
  • Egypt's government has agreed $1bn of financing with Saudi Arabia's Islamic Development Bank (IDB) to put towards energy and food imports. The investment is the first confirmed part of a previously planned $2.5bn deal and comes via IDB subsidiary the International Islamic Trade Finance Corporation.
  • AAOIFI board member and Islamic finance scholar Yusuf Talal DeLorenzo has endorsed Ethica Institute of Islamic Finance. Ethica specialises in Islamic finance training and certification and has over 20,000 paying users in 44 countries. DeLorenzo joins other well known scholars Zubair Usmani and Ashraf Muneeb in acting as an advisor to Ethica.
  • Last week's $ 1 .3bn of sukuk issuance took the 2012 first half total above $65bn to a record $65.33bn. This was a 20.9% increase on the $54.05bn issued in the same period last year – and up to almost 70% of the $94.40bn issued throughout the whole of 2011.
  • Sri Lankan Airlines lands Islamic funding debut