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◆ Predictions for Gulf issuance change shape again ◆ Investment grade firms to pick tricky path through autumn ◆ The Alphabet effect: hyperscalers hit Kangaroo market
Barclays is 21st in the CEEMEA bond league table so far in 2026
International investor participation in the region remains light
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Vinit Sahni, co-founder of fintech start-up Arkera and a former senior rates banker, says that his company will help bond buyers take advantage of, what he believes will be, an upturn in local currency bonds ahead of the US election.
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Standard Bank is expected to raise $1bn in the loan market, up from an initial target of $500m, and slash the pricing of a three year loan by roughly 30bp.
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Kernel, a Ukrainian agricultural producer, hit the market on Thursday with a five year non-call three year. In spite of fears around Ukraine’s future relationship with the IMF, the leads have set initial price thoughts at a level onlookers are calling “aggressive”.
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Equity bankers and investors are hot on Russia and a block on Wednesday night in PIK Group, the country’s largest real estate firm, served as a further example of the remarkable recovery of Russian ECM.
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Dar Al-Arkan, a Saudi Arabia-based real estate developer, raised $600m on Wednesday with a February 2025 sukuk, defying market volatility to offer little in the way of new issue premium.
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The US’s announcement this week that it was putting a whole host of Chinese companies on its blacklist for alleged involvement in human rights abuses is set to hit some of them hard. One of the victims is artificial intelligence (AI) leader Megvii Technology, which has been working on a billion-dollar Hong Kong IPO that will now be a challenge. Jonathan Breen reports.
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