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New issue premiums average a little more this year than in 2025
◆ 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
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September redemption cash and shortage of supply support investor demand

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  • Four banks are set to sign the mandate letter for a $210m loan to support private equity firm KKR’s acquisition of India’s JB Chemicals & Pharmaceuticals.
  • Cigarette packaging producer Amvig Holdings has made a rapid comeback to the loan market for a HK$1.35bn ($174m) borrowing.
  • SSA
    Cyprus will return to the market with a pair of taps on Tuesday, hitting screens alongside the European Financial Stability Facility’s new five year line, providing an excellent opportunity to compare Cyprus’s cost of funds with the cost of the European Stability Mechanism’s pandemic crisis support facility.
  • Kookmin Bank is expected to surface later this week with its first euro covered bond which will fund social housing. The deal is to emerge amid mounting concern that diminishing supply, rising redemptions and aggressive central bank buying will cause an unprecedented technical squeeze in the covered bond market.
  • CEE
    Following the high drama in Ukraine last week when the sovereign pulled a long anticipated bond issue after the governor of the central bank resigned just after the deal was priced, investors are now casting a cautious eye on who will take over.
  • Oman, one of only two junk-rated sovereigns in the Gulf region, is tapping lenders for up to $2bn, as some say it could not find the right conditions in the bond market. According to bankers familiar with the deal, credit risk considerations are foremost and the sovereign will have to pay up to borrow.