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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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  • Moody’s is looking at amending its rating approach for multilateral development banks and supranationals in the wake of last year’s groundbreaking African Development Bank ‘Room2Run’ risk transfer deal, proposing explicit ratings credit for ‘credit protection features’ for the first time.
  • CEE
    Emerging markets got off to a cracking start for the year this week with a slew of sovereign deals hitting screens. High quality, low beta sovereigns Israel and Slovenia began proceedings with impressive euro deals.
  • SSA
    The surprise decision by Jim Yong Kim to quit as president of the World Bank and join a private fund has triggered a race for the top job in development finance, at a time when the US, the Bank's largest shareholder, is hostile to multilateralism. By Phil Thornton
  • Research by a US thinktank shows that the World Bank will have to carry out major reform of its lending to China to meet US-driven goals to focus loans on projects with benefits outside wealthy provinces. By Phil Thornton
  • 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.