© 2026 GlobalCapital, Derivia Intelligence Limited, company number 15235970, 161 Farringdon Rd, London EC1R 3AL. All rights reserved.

Accessibility | Terms of Use | Privacy Policy | Modern Slavery Statement | Event Participant Terms & Conditions | Cookies

Emerging Markets

Top section

Top section

◆ 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

Data

More articles

More articles

More articles

  • CEE
    Slovakia sold 10 year and 50 year bonds from a combined book of over €5bn on Tuesday, the first European sovereign bond since Italy-led volatility last week turned government bond traders’ screens into a kaleidoscope of reds and greens. It was also the longest CEE print in over a decade.
  • Institutional investors piled into Singapore sovereign investment arm Temasek Holdings’ Astrea IV securitization, making the deal almost four times covered. All eyes are now on appetite among retail investors, as it’s the first time a private-equity backed trade is open to the public.
  • Vinpearl blazed a trail for the Asian equity-linked market this week as Vietnam’s first issuer of exchangeable bonds, printing a hugely successful $325m trade. But the execution was not all plain sailing, coming amid a backdrop of emerging markets angst and the disappointing IPO of a high-profile Vietnamese bank. John Loh reports.
  • Industrial and Commercial Bank of China’s London branch issued a $1.5bn-equivalent green bond on Tuesday, becoming the third big Chinese bank to hit the offshore debt market with floating rate notes in less than a week.
  • Two Chinese online platform businesses will start pre-deal investor education for their Hong Kong IPOs on Thursday, according to bankers.
  • FTSE Russell is set to begin consultation on including China government bonds (CGB) in the World Government Bond Index (WGBI) this year, GlobalRMB understands.