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Only one Gulf issuer has printed a blue bond in the public market
Some say UAE central bank liquidity has prompted banks to retrench
Cracks emerge in underlying quality as banks appear to teeter further into cautiousness
The trade may persuade other top-tier GCC sovereigns that the public market is open
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State-owned Abu Dhabi National Oil Co. (Adnoc) launched a $6bn debut syndicated loan this week after increasing the credit’s size and tightening pricing in response to banks’ hunger for it. -
Two Middle Eastern sovereigns this week showed the depth and breadth investor demand for EM credit this week, one with a high quality jumbo $10bn trade, and the other, junk rated, with a bold 30 year trade that took full advantage of ideal funding conditions.
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State-owned Abu Dhabi National Oil Co (Adnoc) has kicked off the syndication of its first syndicated loan for $6bn, after increasing its size and tightening pricing further in response to high demand for the facility.
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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.
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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.
