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Deal the first Kuwaiti Sharia-compliant transaction closed with Chinese banks
Tight spreads may tempt issuers even if all-in yields are higher than earlier in 2026
Only one Gulf issuer has printed a blue bond in the public market
Some say UAE central bank liquidity has prompted banks to retrench
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In 2014, emerging market bankers will be chasing after bigger mandates, but fewer of them if this year’s numbers are anything to go by. 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. But DCM officials say they see little real change in the way deals are pitched or sold as a result of that new strategy.
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The Egyptian Company for Mobile Services (Mobinil) has signed an E£2.26bn ($324m) syndicated loan to refinance bank debt and repay bonds due to mature in the next two years. -
Tich Mabikacheche has left Barclays EM DCM team after 2.5 years as an analyst on that desk.
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Bahrain’s Arab Banking Corporation has shaken up its senior management, hiring Ray Ferguson, chief executive officer at Standard Chartered Bank (Singapore), to a newly created position as group chief banking officer.
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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.
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Russian issuers have finally returned to the market this year, with both Sberbank and Russian Agricultural Bank printing dollar bonds this week. RAB's $500m deal is a tap of its outstanding $800m 2018s, while Sberbank's note is a $1bn 10 year non call five tier two bond, printed under the Central Bank of Russia’s clarified writedown language for Basel III compliant debt.
