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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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Barclays Africa Group made full use of the positive momentum that followed fellow South African bank FirstRand’s dollar tier two to price its own deal with a lower yield this week, despite investors initially asking for a pick up over FirstRand.
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One of the drawbacks of the strong growth in interest in responsible investing is that many investors only want to take conventional kinds of risk — such as buying large, liquid equities or investment grade bonds. But a report out this week suggests even small, obscure impact investments have a safe risk profile — perhaps even better than mainstream investments. -
Two banks have poached members of BNP Paribas’ emerging markets sales and trading team.
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Swiss franc bond market players are conflicted about the substantial slide in the Swiss franc, which has lost about 3.5% of its value against both the euro and dollar in the past two months.
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Boutique investment bank SC Lowy signalled the potential it sees in the Italian banking sector through its acquisition of Credito di Romagna this week. Michel Löwy, CEO of the firm, also views it as a way to expand the firm’s European leveraged finance operations.
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Turkish real estate developer Ronesans Gayrimenkul Yatirim has released initial price guidance on its benchmark five year bond, which a rival syndicate has called wide but a lead said was the pick-up investors are demanding over Turkish international corporates.
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