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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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  • Year to date CEEMEA sovereign bond volumes are at their highest level ever, with the total sold so far already soaring past some analysts’ full year predictions. Issuance is less than $20bn off the record set in 2012, and with Macedonia and Bahrain adding themselves to the list of CEE and African sovereign deals still expected, 2014 could easily become the new benchmark for sovereign supply, said analysts.
  • With the first half of the year completed, regular IFIS league table topper HSBC has taken a commanding lead in dollar sukuk for share of total issuance value, but Emirates NBD and JP Morgan have surged up the ranks for first ever top five placings, with ENBD on more dollar deals in the period than any other bank. Meanwhile, CIMB has opened a gap in global sukuk arranging after trailing Maybank at this time last year, but the competition looks set to heat up further in the second half.
  • The International Islamic Liquidity Management Corp is set to re-issue $860m of commercial paper style sukuk next week – its seventh issue to date under its short term sukuk programme.
  • The Kingdom of Bahrain has mandated three banks for an international bond, according to a banker away from the deal.
  • Meethaq, the Islamic banking subsidiary of Bank Muscat, has teamed up with the Islamic Development Bank (IsDB) and the Islamic Research and Training Institution (IRTI) to jointly support business opportunities in Oman’s Islamic banking sector.
  • The Bahrain Economic Development Board (EDB) and the Islamic Corporation for the Development of the Private Sector (ICD) will combine efforts to promote growth of small and medium size enterprises in Bahrain, by providing support as well as Shariah compliant products and training.