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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 International Islamic Liquidity Management Corporation (IILM) will auction its third $490m short term dollar sukuk next week.
  • The Islamic Development Bank will hit the road on Sunday as it lines up a dollar benchmark sukuk of as much as $1bn. The deal will be a welcome — if tightly priced — issue for UK Islamic banks, given its status as the only triple-A rated sukuk issuer that qualifies for liquidity buffers under Bank of England rules.
  • General Electric, the only western blue chip corporate to date to have issued an international sukuk, has not ruled out a return to the Islamic market when its deal matures this year.
  • Gulf Marine Services, the Abu Dhabi offshore service vessel operator, hopes to tap into investors’ interest in its potential for growth to raise $100m through a flotation on the London stock exchange.
  • The average size of an emerging market bond in the first weeks of this year has leapt skywards compared to previous years while the number of deals priced has plummeted, according to Dealogic data. This may be a function of sovereigns having so far dominated the market — especially in CEEMEA — but is a trend that could be the shape of things to come for the rest of the year.
  • In 2013, several CEEMEA issuers roadshowed, mandated or even released price talk for a new Eurobond before postponing the deal. EuroWeek Emerging Markets recaps the borrowers that may be waiting for a window, and finds out whether they are still looking or have embarked on another funding plan.