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Oil giant's bonds were priced no more than 15bp over the sovereign's curve
The Gulf kingdom is trying to tackle a very wide deficit and sky-high debt to GDP
Saudi government-related bond issuance is 20% up year-on-year
The bank has a business model different to other Gulf issuers
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  • Turkish lender Yapi Kredi ventured into the green bond market for the first time on Friday with a rare dollar private placement, its first since January 2016, according to Dealogic data.
  • Funding Circle picks up former securitization syndicator — Campbell moves from HSBC to RBC — Long-time DCM banker turns up at Aramco
  • A week that started with a panic about the potential for conflict between Iran and the US appeared to end with capital market issuance conditions so good as to be marked “10 out of 10”. As the loan market defied Middle East risk, borrowers and bond bankers are gearing up for a week ahead of huge issuance, while equity bankers are ruing missed opportunities. Sam Kerr, Mariam Meskin and Francesca Young report.
  • The State of Israel printed a $3bn dual tranche dollar bond on Thursday from a combined book of $20bn, helping to buoy confidence in the CEEMEA market as US-Iran tensions faded. The bond was Israel’s largest ever deal and its tightest price in terms of spread.
  • Two major insiders offloaded £375m of stock in NMC Health, the troubled UAE-based private healthcare company to cover debts on Tuesday. The share sale, which was priced at a 19.7% discount to close, came weeks after a short selling attack on NMC Health by US activist hedge fund Muddy Waters, which caused the company to lose more than half of its market value.
  • Equity investors were hopeful that the tension between the US and Iran will lessen after the latter responded to the former's assassination of its military commander Qasem Soleimani with a limited tactical strike against US bases in the Middle East.