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The trade is the first from a 'mid-tier' Uzbek lender
The dollar market is offering cheaper funding at the shorter end
Victoria Power Network makes first appearance in the currency

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  • Mexican leasing company Operadora de Servicios Mega (Grupo Mega) became the latest Latin American high yield company to gain impressive pricing traction on Thursday, as it offered strong evidence that the region’s bond buyers are nonplussed by the coronavirus epidemic.
  • Axel Kicillof, the governor of the Province of Buenos Aires, who has an antagonistic relationship with bond investors, was forced into a volte-face on forgoing a debt payment, as Argentina’s new government seeks to maintain a good rapport with markets ahead of restructuring negotiations.
  • Emerging market bonds hit top gear this week, as investors lapped up a number of remarkable deals. Chief highlights were a first negative yielding trade in euros and the longest ever sub-Saharan African tranche. With rates set to stay low and no risk event so far capable of knocking issuance off track, the prospect of more astonishing new issues is high as cash floods into the asset class, reports Ross Lancaster.
  • HSBC picks regional bosses ahead of expected restructuring — Mizho goes on fixed income hiring spree — Bank of America appoints head of rates trading
  • Qatar National Bank returned to the euro market for the first time since March 2018 this week, while there was also an unusual outing in Saudi riyal as Emirates NBD made its debut in the currency — the first from a non-Saudi issuer since 2018.
  • EMEA equity capital markets roared back into life this week, as fears over a potential coronavirus pandemic abated to allow the blocks market to reopen in size. A huge slug of supply on Monday evening that traded up left investors hungry for more, report Sam Kerr and Aidan Gregory.