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  • Dubai-based Emirates Airlines is weighing up whether to repay outright its $550m sukuk maturity next month from cash or to refinance the deal with new debt. In the latter case, Emirates has said that the pricing difference between sukuk and conventional bonds will determine which approach it uses.
  • If VTB manages, on its third attempt, to issue a sukuk then the Russian bank will have achieved for conventional issuers what Goldman Sachs couldn't and Credit Agricole didn't dare. Demonstrating that such business is possible would do a big favour for the Islamic finance market –– and the Russians themselves.
  • Malaysia Airlines (MAS), the country's national carrier, has been hit by a fresh challenge this week, just days after it outlined a three-pronged plan to shore up its working capital. Executive director and deputy chief executive Mohammed Rashdan Mohd Yusof has resigned from his position after nine months at the company.
  • A hearing in London into unfair dismissal allegations brought against Gatehouse Bank and former colleagues by its former chief operating officer, James Bagshawe, was postponed on Monday after employment tribunal judges decided the case was too big to resolve in the five days that had been allocated to it this week.
  • Saudi Arabia's National Prawn Company has agreed a SR460m ($122m) Islamic loan facility with Saudi Hollandi Bank to help finance its expansion plans and global export production.
  • 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.