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Funding costs and new issue premiums are much higher than GCC issuers are used to
Senior banker will move to Abu Dhabi to take up position
Well known banker moves to take MD role
Central banks in the region have stepped in with support and lenders are thought unlikely to let sub debt extend
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  • First Abu Dhabi Bank raised $650m with its market return on Monday, as Gulf Corporation Council financial supply continued with Union National Bank.
  • The Commercial Bank of Qatar debuted in Swiss francs on Tuesday, selling three year bonds to ‘the who’s who’ of the Swiss franc bond market, according to a banker on the deal. CBQ’s trade is the best illustration yet of Swiss investors growing more comfortable with Middle Eastern financial credit.
  • After a three week wait, First Abu Dhabi Bank has deemed the market constructive enough to open books on its new five year sukuk, and had crushed the spread to 4bp over its existing bonds on Monday.
  • Dubai's Mashreqbank is adding a deal for Nigeria's Access Bank to the string of loans to African financial institutions it has arranged.
  • Saudi Arabia’s debt markets are open for business, the hiring charge is on and foreign banks are flooding in, but there has been a struggle to build a local force of primary bond market bankers, boding ill for the capital markets expansion the country is hoping for.
  • QInvest’s head of debt capital market and financial institutions has left the bank earlier this week.