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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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Government agency Tamkeen and BMI Bank, a subsidiary of Al Salam bank, have renewed a Shariah-compliant financing scheme for Bahrain’s private sector enterprises.
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Qatar Islamic Bank achieved a QR725m ($199m) net profit for the first half of 2014, representing 15% growth on the same period last year.
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A dispute between shareholders of the Algerian subsidiary of Bahrain’s Al Salam has seen Algeria’s central bank commission place the bank under temporary administration.
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Corporate and debutant issuers have driven Saudi sukuk to its busiest six months on record according to IFIS figures. -
It is a fine testament to the growing stature of Islamic finance that various novel borrowers are pressing ahead to issue international sukuk for the first time — the likes of Hong Kong, Luxembourg and Dogus Group among them. But with so many debuts revving up to join an autumnal convoy, those that can beat the traffic are advised to do so.
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European banks are so anxious to comply with US sanctions law that in some cases, they are interpreting the rules more strictly than US banks, and even occasionally losing business by it, several bankers said this week. Jon Hay and Michael Turner report.
