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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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In this round-up, the Office of the US Trade Representative postponed imposing 10% tariffs on selected Chinese imports, protesters paralysed Hong Kong airport for two days and Shanghai said it would allow foreign employees to receive stock options on the A-share market.
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A surprise result in last Sunday's primary elections in Argentina triggered hefty losses for emerging market investors this week. Many feared another sovereign default as Argentina assets, and its currency, took an absolute kicking. But by Thursday, writes Oliver West, some felt that bruised and battered investors could be missing out on a chance to snap up cheap assets. -
A draft Polish law, requiring the written consent of property owners to transfer mortgages, would have “significant adverse effects on Polish banks’ funding” said the European Central Bank, with respect to the covered bond and securitization markets. However, a legal expert said there would be no direct impact on covered bonds.
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A number of supranationals have delayed their plans to issue Panda bonds over a dispute about their accepting Chinese regulatory oversight, write Rebecca Feng and Burhan Khadbai.
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Colombian airline Avianca is offering bondholders the chance to swap unsecured bonds at par for new secured debt as it looks to stave off a looming maturity and clinch $250m of shareholder funding. The airline’s CFO said on Thursday that he felt positive the exchange would go ahead in its existing form.
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EM investors have had a gut wrenching week as a barrage of bad news — some within the emerging markets and some external to them — chipped away or in some cases annihilated their year’s returns so far. But though some fund managers said that they now fear a further widespread sell-off in EM assets similar to the second half of 2018, syndicate bankers said that there is a queue of issuers ready, waiting and expecting to be able to tap the international bond markets imminently.
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