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Investors have lots of cash and are eager for new issuance
Investors are keen for new bonds and better rated borrowers may not want to issue in numbers
2026's lead in issuance over 2025 has shrunk since the US-Iran war broke out
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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
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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.
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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.
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Bahrain Steel to lock in better conditions in refi — Saudi sparks life into local loan mart — Cranfield University soft-sounds private placement market — Golding Homes looks to add hundreds of houses with £120m facility — Great Portland brings ESG loans to UK Reits
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Qatar National Bank took $1bn from bond markets on Wednesday as it tapped investors for the second time this year, with just 1% allocated to Gulf Co-operation Council-based investors.
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