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◆ Gulf private placements bite back ◆ Bond new issue premiums rise ◆ CLOs catch a break
Business has sagged in the third quarter, but the pipeline is busy, despite an intractable war
Private bonds are now being offered in the open market wider than where public deals trade
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Sponsored by CAF – Development Bank of Latin America and the Caribbean
CAF gearing up to transform regional development
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Emirates NBD Capital: An unrivalled conduit for Middle East liquidity
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