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Flood of AT1s expected to follow the first public trade from the Gulf in over two months
Announcements could come as early as Monday, the two month anniversary of the last public GCC trades
Islamic investors have been a safe haven for Gulf issuers in the past, and can be now
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  • Qatar has raised the upper limit for foreign investors in the country's stocks, making it the latest state in the Gulf to try to encourage international investment.
  • First Gulf Bank has added two people to its structured finance team. Anand Bangur and Mehdi Raza have joined the group’s debt markets and syndications team under former Standard Chartered banker Steve Perry, who was hired by FGB in September 2013.
  • Qatar has raised the upper limit for foreign investors in the country's stocks, making it the latest state in the Gulf to try and encourage international investment.
  • Qatar has raised the upper limit for foreign investors in the country's stocks, making it the latest state in the Gulf to try and encourage international investment.
  • Natural gas company Dana Gas is hoping improvements in money collection and receivables will convince more holders of its convertible sukuk to exchange their bonds for equity. The company’s share price has fallen and yields on its sukuk risen in recent weeks as fighting between Islamic militants and Kurdish forces has intensified. But a better outlook from its Egyptian operations and a ruling from a London court ordering the Kurdish Regional Government of Iraq to resume payments should help reassure investors, the company said.
  • Saudi Arabian conglomerate Astra Industrial has signed a SR887.5m ($234m) Shariah-compliant financing facility with The Saudi British Bank (SABB), its second ever Islamic loan according to the IFIS database.