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  • CEE
    Turkey made its first capital markets foray of the year with a $2bn bond issue on Wednesday. But bankers were divided on the deal's success.
  • Saudi Arabia's $7.5bn bond, issued on Wednesday, met with little resistance from investors, despite international condemnation of the killing of Jamal Khashoggi at the country's consulate in Istanbul last year. The lead managers built a $27bn book for the deal.
  • Israel rounded out an immensely successful opening week of 2019 for emerging market sovereign bond issues with its largest deal ever. The borrower raised €2.5bn of 10 and 30 year debt, pushing out its curve and printing at its tightest ever spread for a euro deal.
  • Fitch Ratings has remedied its long lack of a visible response to the rise of environmental, social and governance investing by launching a set of ESG relevance scores.
  • African Export-Import Bank has closed a $500m five year term loan, it announced on Wednesday, partly guaranteed by the Export-Import Bank of China. The presence of a mainly Asian syndicate has sparked discussion about the continually increasing Chinese capital flowing into Africa.
  • CEE
    Yapi Kredi sold the first ever public additional tier one (AT1) bond from Turkey on Wednesday, which leads said would act as a benchmark for future issuers from the country despite the deal having been largely sold to the borrower’s shareholders.