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Volume dips only slightly despite there being a third fewer transactions
◆ Europe's corporate bond market braces for US tech issuance surge ◆ Canada makes move for EU regs equivalence but to what end? ◆ Middle East private placements here to stay... but will take up less room
Private placements may have hung around much longer than first expected but their dominance may be at an end
Sukuk volumes much slimmer this year
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Political protests in Turkey last week and uncertainty over US Treasury rate rises hammered the country in the capital markets. But it has strong fundamentals and has held up well in the circumstances, said analysts. Turkish borrowers are by no means barred from the bond market.
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Mobile telecoms firm Zain Saudi has signed a Sr2.25bn ($600m) government-guaranteed three year Islamic financing facility. Saudi Arabia’s decision to provide an unconditional and irrevocable guarantee for Zain suggests that Gulf countries are becoming more willing to support the telecom sector, said Fitch in a research note, raising the possibility of cross border mergers. -
Mobile telecommunications firm Zain Saudi has signed a SR2.25bn ($600m) three year murabaha financing guaranteed by its parent company.
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Qatar Islamic Bank and Commercial Bank of Qatar have asked the state's stock exchange to increase the number of their shares available to foreign investors to 25% of their total market capitalisation.
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Gulf Finance House, the majority shareholder in Khaleeji Commercial Bank, has signed a memorandum of understanding with Bahraini Islamic institution Bank Al Khair as the institutions weigh a potential merger.
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The Muscat Securities Market (MSM) will launch a Shariah compatible stock index on July 1.
