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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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Masraf Al Rayan has injected £75.75m into Islamic Bank of Britain, having completed its takeover in January.
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With dollar funding again stymied, a banner performance in sterling underscored the UK currency’s increasingly strategic appeal to bond issuers, some bankers argued this week — highlighting a rise of almost £1bn in new issues compared with the same period last year. But others see little more than an opportunistic grab at basis swap arbitrage.
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The UK government has appointed law firm Linklaters to act as legal advisor to assist the UK Treasury in preparing for the country's debut sukuk. -
January may have been a wash out for Middle East bonds and sukuk issuers as well as the British public, but one of those groups still has every reason to hope that things will improve.
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B Communications, the holding company of Israeli telco Bezeq, wants to sell a $775m-equivalent high yield bond in euros and dollars.
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Despite emergency rate hikes by India, Turkey and South Africa aimed at stopping the rot that tore through emerging market credit and currencies this week, senior bankers and traders insisted that this was not the beginning of a full blown EM crisis. And with the rise in credit spreads far from catastrophic, a blowout deal for Kuwait Projects Company and a healthy pipeline to look forward to, the evidence seemed to stack up in their favour, at least for now.
