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Tight price and strong book reported as market awaits geographic breakdown
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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Islamic finance specialists welcomed a joint initiative from Bahraini Islamic bank Al Baraka and the World Bank to research the risk-management challenges facing Islamic banks. Islamic institutions such as the Organisation of Islamic Cooperation and the Islamic Development Bank have not done enough to promote research into risk management in Islamic finance, and the new initiative was a firm step in the right direction, said one. -
Kuwaiti mobile operator is to sell 15% of its holding in its subsidiary Zain Bahrain as the company is set to launch Bahrain’s first IPO since 2010 next month.
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Kuwaiti mobile operator is to sell 15% of its holding in its subsidiary Zain Bahrain as the company is set to launch Bahrain’s first IPO since 2010 next month.
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The Bahrain Institute of Banking and Finance has signed a memorandum of understanding with the University of Bolton to develop an MBA in Islamic banking.
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The deputy chairman of Bank Asya — formerly Turkey’s largest Islamic financial institution — has resigned, just days after Turkey’s prime minister publically criticised the bank’s financial position. Turkish analysts are expecting Bank Asya to continue losing deposits and senior management in the months ahead, and one believes an eventual acquisition by a state-owned bank looking to break into the Islamic market is likely.
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The European Islamic Investment Bank has launched a tender offer to buy back up to £20m of its shares — representing around 21% of the company’s share capital — at a chunky premium to where they were trading. But this is because the bank has priced the deal off its book value rather than the market value, and hopes to narrow the gap between the two, said an EIIB official.
