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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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  • The Kingdom of Bahrain has mandated three banks for an international bond, according to a banker away from the deal.
  • 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.
  • It is a fine testament to the growing stature of the Islamic finance market that various novel borrowers are pressing ahead with plans to issue international sukuk for the first time — the likes of Hong Kong, Luxembourg and Dogus Group among them. But with so many debut deals revving up to join an autumnal convoy, those that can beat the traffic are advised to do so.
  • Middle East-focused oil trader BB Energy has signed an oversubscribed $175m one year loan from 20 banks, in a deal that lenders say typifies the ample cash available to borrowers.
  • The government of Sharjah, the United Arab Emirates’ third biggest economy, will issue its first ever sovereign sukuk in September or October, according to market rumours and a banker with knowledge of the matter.
  • Turkey's state-owned Halkbank has signed an $807m-equivalent dollar and euro loan, GlobalCapital reports.