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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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  • Emaar Malls Group’s tightly $750m 4.564% 10 year sukuk has performed well in its first day of secondary trading, despite having been priced at the tight end of guidance that had already been refined lower twice.
  • Emirates Telecommunications (Etisalat) made a dazzling bond market debut on Wednesday, taking over €3bn equivalent across four tranches of dollar and euro notes. The huge crossover bid from European investment grade accounts for corporate EM paper provided tight pricing and a strong secondary performance, and debt bankers expect it to draw a series of debut names to the euro market before year end.
  • Mid-tier Turkish financial institution Alternatifbank has breezed past its refinancing target to sign a $343.5m-equivalent one year loan.
  • Al Hilal looks set to become the first bank in the United Arab Emirates to issue a tier one perpetual sukuk since Dubai Islamic Bank brought $1bn in March last year. This would also provide the first test of demand since Abu Dhabi Commercial Bank’s tier two last year drew attention to a shortfall in the central bank’s provisions for such instruments.
  • Emaar Malls Group’s tightly $750m 4.564% 10 year sukuk has performed well in its first day of secondary trading, despite having been priced at the tight end of guidance that had already been refined lower twice.
  • Emaar Malls Group has priced $750m of 10 year sukuk at the tight end of twice refined guidance at 182.5bp over mid-swaps, having secured a $5.4bn order book.