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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
Central banks in the region have stepped in with support and lenders are thought unlikely to let sub debt extend
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Oman became the first CEEMEA borrower to hit the screens this year with an official mandate. It has named five lead managers to arrange a triple tranche dollar bond as it looks to fund a Omr3bn ($7.8bn) budget deficit for 2018. -
Emerging market bond fund managers say they are markedly more optimistic than 12 months ago when the "whole world was negative" after the start of Donald Trump’s US presidential term. And with plenty of sovereign trades rumoured for January, there is an abundance of investment opportunities.
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For CEEMEA bonds, 2017 was a record breaking year and one which pushed the boundaries of product, tenor, and issuer. The $200bn of bonds raised in CEEMEA, and the $140bn raised in Latin America are the highest annual volumes on record. Investors’ seemingly insatiable appetite for EM debt fuelled massive inflows into the asset class and kept the many idiosyncratic risk events – from Qatar’s regional isolation to deteriorating relations between Turkey and the US– contained. Picking out the deals of the year for 2017 was not easy for GlobalCapital’s editorial team, but after much deliberation the below were chosen.
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Nomura has hired Nihal Elkafrawi as head of client coverage for the Middle East and north Africa. She will foster cross-selling opportunities for global markets and investment banking, the bank said in a statement.
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Savannah Petroleum, the UK oil and gas company focusing on African exploration, has secured a partnership with ASMA Capital Partners, a Bahraini fund manager which invests on behalf of the Islamic Development Bank, as part of its equity capital raising, which is set to be priced today.
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Saudi Arabian Mining's (Ma’aden) subsidiary Ma’aden Aluminium has signed a $1.78bn syndicated loan to refinance a facility signed seven years ago.
