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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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  • Bond investors embraced pan-emerging markets telecoms company Millicom International Cellular’s debt-funded acquisitions in Central America as they piled into the company’s latest bond and continued to demand the paper in the grey market.
  • Ukraine drew attention for all the wrong reasons this week, tapping a November 2028 line for $350m, allegedly well below the market value.
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    Ukraine courted controversy this week, turning to the private market to tap its November 2028 bond. The trade caught the attention of investors and bankers, with some saying that JP Morgan had retained the deal and priced it well below the market rate. Lewis McLellan reports.
  • Emirates NBD brought its first additional tier one (AT1) bond to market on Wednesday, printing the Middle East’s largest deal in the format. Now others in the emerging markets are set to follow.
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    Kosmos Energy on Thursday announced a new seven year Reg S/144A dollar bond, callable in 2022.
  • An uptick in Russian equity capital markets (ECM) activity this week buoyed bankers and investors, who are hoping a freeze caused by US sanctions is thawing, write Sam Kerr and Aidan Gregory.