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African mobile payment provider prepares to list, seeking large valuation
Deep breath for market as more guidance, more mandates appear
Secondary market selling of private bonds may be wreaking havoc with the primary market for public debt but the trades were still the right thing to do

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  • Rating: B2/—/B+
  • It has been the busiest start to the year on record for both CEEMEA and emerging market bonds globally, and the enthusiastic printing shows little sign of abating. New issues in the secondary market have mostly performed strongly, and high redemption volumes this year will have investors flush with cash.
  • The Gabonese Republic has released price guidance on its first benchmark Eurobond since 2015.
  • European equity capital markets’ buoyant start to the year ground to a halt this week as banks held back from doing deals over concerns about the outbreak of a deadly strain of coronavirus in China and how it may damage investor risk appetite. Losses in Asian markets, which are reopening following the Lunar New Year holiday, have compounded fears that global risk sentiment may be turning.
  • CEE
    Vakifbank printed its $750m 5.25% 2025s on Wednesday from a book that reached higher than $4.3bn at its peak, but the note was seen below re-offer in London’s secondary market on Thursday morning.
  • Mexican non-bank lender AlphaCredit became the latest company from Latin America to schedule fixed income investor meetings as bankers say smaller, high yield issuers are likely to dominate forthcoming supply.