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GlobalCapital Podcast

Friendship has limits

◆ Gulf private placements bite back ◆ Bond new issue premiums rise ◆ CLOs catch a break

Jon Hay, September 18, 2026

Syndicated Loans

Middle East loans to catch 2025 level by year end

Business has sagged in the third quarter, but the pipeline is busy, despite an intractable war

Martin Miraglia, September 17, 2026

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Emerging Markets

Private placement secondary sales blamed for sluggish Gulf primary market

Private bonds are now being offered in the open market wider than where public deals trade

Francesca Young, September 17, 2026

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Emerging Markets

Busy EM week lines up in wake of Fed

Francesca Young, September 17, 2026

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Emerging Markets

CEEMEA on pause in hope of Fed fix

Francesca Young, September 16, 2026

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Emerging Markets

MOL tightens by 22bp as US Treasury sell-off continues

George Collard, September 15, 2026

Emerging Markets

Busy EM week lines up in wake of Fed

Francesca Young, September 17, 2026

Emerging Markets

CEEMEA on pause in hope of Fed fix

Francesca Young, September 16, 2026

Emerging Markets

MOL tightens by 22bp as US Treasury sell-off continues

George Collard, September 15, 2026

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Asia

Property companies build on bond momentum

Three Chinese real estate companies raised $850m between them from the dollar debt market on Wednesday.

Morgan Davis, January 16, 2020
Equity People and Markets

BCS Global Markets builds up investment banking with senior hire

Russian brokerage BCS Global Markets has appointed a senior banker from HSBC as head of capital markets and investment banking.

Aidan Gregory, January 15, 2020
ABBs-Block Trades

Turkish ECM reopens at last with $145m Akbank trade

Turkey's primary equity capital markets opened for the first time since 2018 on Wednesday as an undisclosed group of shareholders set out to sell 1.9% of Akbank.

Sam Kerr, January 15, 2020
Asia

Sinagpore’s ARA strikes deal to boost Venn Partners’ firepower

ARA Asset Management, a Singapore-based asset manager focused on Reits, has bought a majority stake in Venn Partners, a secured asset specialist investing in UK and Netherlands assets, in a deal which will boost the firm’s firepower in the mortgage and CRE debt markets.

Owen Sanderson, January 15, 2020
ABBs-Block Trades

Large US fund picks up big profit from NMC block

Capital Group, one of the largest asset managers in the US, bought 13.45m shares in NMC Health on January 8, according to a disclosure on the London Stock Exchange. They were worth about £160m. That was the day after a £375m block trade by Saeed Al Qebaisi and Khaleefa Al Muhairi, two of the three controlling shareholders in the UAE health company, which faced criticism from short-seller Muddy Waters of its balance sheet and financial statements in December.

Sam Kerr, January 15, 2020
CEE

Veon brings 2019 bond up to targeted $1bn

Emerging markets telecommunications firm Veon, formerly Vimpelcom, printed a $300m tap of its $700m 4% April 2025s on Wednesday from a book of more than $1bn and paying a new issue premium of only 5bp, according to a syndicate official on the tap.

Francesca Young, January 15, 2020