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GlobalCapital Podcast

Friendship has limits

◆ Gulf private placements bite back ◆ Bond new issue premiums rise ◆ CLOs catch a break

Jon Hay, September 18, 2026

Syndicated Loans

Middle East loans to catch 2025 level by year end

Business has sagged in the third quarter, but the pipeline is busy, despite an intractable war

Martin Miraglia, September 17, 2026

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Emerging Markets

Private placement secondary sales blamed for sluggish Gulf primary market

Private bonds are now being offered in the open market wider than where public deals trade

Francesca Young, September 17, 2026

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Emerging Markets

Busy EM week lines up in wake of Fed

Francesca Young, September 17, 2026

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Emerging Markets

CEEMEA on pause in hope of Fed fix

Francesca Young, September 16, 2026

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Emerging Markets

MOL tightens by 22bp as US Treasury sell-off continues

George Collard, September 15, 2026

Emerging Markets

Busy EM week lines up in wake of Fed

Francesca Young, September 17, 2026

Emerging Markets

CEEMEA on pause in hope of Fed fix

Francesca Young, September 16, 2026

Emerging Markets

MOL tightens by 22bp as US Treasury sell-off continues

George Collard, September 15, 2026

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Asia

SGX Nifty derivatives granted stay of execution

Singapore Exchange (SGX) has been allowed temporarily to continue listing its Nifty derivatives as it fights a legal battle with the National Stock Exchange of India (NSE) over replacement products.

Costas Mourselas, June 18, 2018
Emerging Market Loans

Coface Poland melds bilateral loans into one syndication

Coface Poland Factoring has signed a €300m-equivalent syndicated loan to partly replace bilateral credit lines, stretching out the average debt maturity for the Polish subsidiary of the French trade insurance company.

Mike Turner, June 18, 2018
Asia

China Re talks to Singapore about cat bonds

China Reinsurance (Group) Corp’s chairman recently held talks with the Singapore deputy prime minister about catastrophe bonds. The conversation’s timing is bound to raise eyebrows, given the reinsurer’s outstanding cat bond is due next month.

Jasper Cox, June 15, 2018
Asia

Updated: Wuzhou lifts trading halt on shares and bonds, admits default

Wuzhou International Holdings’ Hong Kong-listed shares and dollar bonds resumed trading on Friday after slumping heavily in late May. The reopening followed a filing from the company on Thursday evening admitting it has defaulted on some of its payment obligations.

Addison Gong, June 15, 2018
Asia

Louis Dreyfus Asia returns for $500m revolver

Singapore’s Louis Dreyfus Co Asia has returned to the offshore market for a $500m three year revolving credit facility.

Pan Yue, June 15, 2018
Asia

China policy round-up: QFII freed from repatriation cap, CSRC wants more A-shares in MSCI, PBoC’s Yi sings Shanghai’s praises

FX watchdog loosens its grip on capital outflows for foreign investors, securities regulator lobbies for A-shares to make up more than 0.73% of MSCI’s benchmark emerging market (EM) index, and the governor of China’s central bank hails Shanghai as the prime spot to pilot further liberalisation.

Noah Sin, June 15, 2018