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The Iran war has led to a flurry of private trades from the Gulf
Even if ceasefire succeeds, investors will still want a risk premium
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
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  • The Islamic arm of Turkey's Ziraat Bank has signed a $236m one year Murabaha syndicated loan with 13 banks, according to a banker on the deal.
  • Ratings agency Moody’s opined on the Middle East after market close on Friday, with the United Arab Emirates seeing a better outlook while Qatar’s creditworthiness took a hit. Qatar’s rating was cut from Aa2 to Aa3 with a stable outlook on the back of a weakening in the sovereign’s external debt to GDP levels and uncertainty around where growth will come from in the medium term.
  • China’s FX market records Rmb11.38tr ($1.65tr) of transactions in April, the State Administration of Foreign Exchange releases more foreign investment quotas, and CFETS completes first options write-off in the interbank market.
  • Kuwait National Petroleum Co is due to finalise documentation on its final loan facility for its 'clean fuels' project, bringing the total debt accumulated for the project to $7.2bn.
  • Not only is the CEEMEA bond market red hot and smashing through issuance records, there were also signs this week of its developing maturity, writes Virginia Furness.
  • Oman made its public market sukuk debt on Tuesday to raise $2bn with a well-supported trade. While bankers on the deal argued that Oman achieved a “sukuk discount”, others said the deal came flat to its conventional curve.