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The UAE bank capped the deal size at $500m, gaining some leverage over pricing
Attractive pricing versus dollars luring GCC borrowers back to the single currency
Investors are still showing big demand for the Dubai real estate firm's sukuk despite two sell-offs in a year
Wider currency mix helped meet demand for high grade paper with attractive yields from the region
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  • Global Education Management Systems (GEMS) Education of Dubai is to launch a $1.2bn syndicated loan, ahead of its planned initial public offering early next year.
  • If it’s large, liquid and high grade, or small, obscure with a decent yield, it will fly. If it’s a repeat issuer, small in size, and tightly priced, it won’t. That is the status in EM according to debt capital markets bankers.
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    With 65m people displaced worldwide, the refugee crisis can seem insurmountable. But despite this daunting scale, initiatives are being tried that could help some of those affected. Citigroup’s charitable foundation is giving $2m to a project to train refugees for the job market and entrepreneurship, in Greece, Jordan and Nigeria.
  • The Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan served plenty of yield up to investors on Monday, proving that it is not just the double-A rated names which enjoy access to long dated funding in emerging market bonds. The deal traded up two cash points on Tuesday which drew a mixed response from market participants.
  • Middle Eastern banks are diversifying their funding portfolios by entering the international syndicated loan market for the first time, with Bahrain Islamic Bank (BisB) signing a deal at the end of September and two more due to sign this month.
  • Abu Dhabi was on track on Tuesday morning to print the second blowout trade from the Gulf in a week following Saudi Arabia's $12.5bn sale last Wednesday. It was also able to drive pricing through Saudi Arabia’s secondary curve, having taken orders of $30bn.