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Trade was the largest so far from the Dubai property developer
Turkish oil and gas firm offers a pickup to its parent and most other CEEMEA sukuk
Where the company's deal prices relative to its parent will be the topic of investor roadshows
Benin showed Islamic issuance is a viable market for sub-Saharan African sovereigns
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Bermuda has confirmed it is trying to position itself as a centre for Islamic finance and strengthen its ties with the middle east. Bermuda has for some time marketed itself as amenable to Shariah-compliant business, a message that has also been pushed forward recently by promotional organisation Business Bermuda at such events as October's MENA Investment Management Conference in Qatar and its own briefing in New York.
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Independent financial advisory the deVere Group has included Qatar, Lebanon and Turkey among 12 new global offices it will open before March next year. The firm's chief executive Nigel Green said that deVere is targeting expansion in strategic worldwide locations in response to the demand it sees from existing and potential clients.
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AT Financial's Egyptian Islamic equity index rallied 1% on Thursday ahead of the Eid ul-Adha Islamic holiday. This brought the index to roughly flat on the week after its earlier fall, but at 391.58 is still down nearly 24% since the start of the year.
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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.
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Bahrain has mandated BNP Paribas , Standard Chartered and Citi as joint lead managers and bookrunners to issue the first benchmark sukuk from a country that was directly affected by the political turmoil that began to sweep across the region in March this year.
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Recent news that both Goldman Sachs and Credit Agricole are looking to issue sukuk has reignited debate in the Islamic market about use of asset-backed and asset-based structures.