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Deal the first Kuwaiti Sharia-compliant transaction closed with Chinese banks
Tight spreads may tempt issuers even if all-in yields are higher than earlier in 2026
Believed to be the largest sale of Islamic home financings to have taken place in the UK
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Albaraka Turk Participation Bank and the Islamic Development Bank have signed a $40m Islamic financing facility to support small and medium enterprises in Turkey. -
Singapore Telecommunications (Singtel) enjoyed a rare outing in the dollar bond market on Tuesday, nabbing $750m. Morgan Davis reports.
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Sanctions on a country’s sovereign debt do not typically herald a windfall of fee-earning bond market business in that country, but Russia may prove an exception. If the sovereign distorts prices in the domestic market, Russian corporates and banks may look to the international market to borrow instead.
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BCME Bank, one of the largest banks in Morocco, has raised Dh1bn ($103m) by selling new shares on the Casablanca Stock Exchange.
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Mexican lender Banco Mercantil del Norte (Banorte) is looking to sell its third Swiss franc bond, breaking a two-week hiatus in cross-border issuance from Latin American borrowers.
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China unveiled a new benchmark rate, the loan prime rate (LPR), for loans this week. While hailed as a groundbreaking step towards making its benchmark lending rate more market-driven, the mechanism for determining the LPR in fact grants the central bank more control over the country’s interest rates.
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