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  • Hong Kong Exchanges and Clearing's derivatives trading revenue hit a record in 2018, helping to lift its profit attributable to shareholders 26% to HK$9.3bn ($1.2bn).
  • Bahrain plans to raise debt in capital markets over the next year, and bankers believe it should get a positive response from the market as the country is expected to continue recovering from a period of economic instability.
  • Qatar International Islamic Bank sold its $500m five year sukuk on Tuesday, printing 25bp inside initial price guidance from an order book that reached $4bn in the first international sukuk deal from Qatar since May 2017.
  • Almarai, the largest dairy company in the Middle East, sold its $500m five year sukuk on Tuesday having drawn a huge $5.3bn of demand for the deal — the first from a Saudi investment grade private corporate issuer.
  • Most investors agree that emerging markets are in for a big year, based primarily on an overdone sell-off at the end of last year. But Jan Dehn, head of global research at Ashmore Group, believes that the asset class will benefit from a big realignment in asset allocation in the medium term.
  • Emirates Development Bank, an agency guaranteed by the United Arab Emirates, hit screens for its debut five year Reg S benchmark on Wednesday, with initial price thoughts that looked promising to bankers away from the deal.