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Gulf private placements were still a good solution

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

Francesca Young, September 22, 2026

Emerging Markets

Qatar leads CEEMEA charge

Sovereign's $3bn deal tightens well as Asian demand returns

Francesca Young, September 22, 2026

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Emerging Markets

Qatar's public new issue prints off private deal in secondary

The sovereign's public and private bonds of similar maturities are trading over 25bp apart

Francesca Young, September 21, 2026

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GlobalCapital Podcast

Friendship has limits

Jon Hay, September 18, 2026

Syndicated Loans

Middle East loans to catch 2025 level by year end

Martin Miraglia, September 17, 2026

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Emerging Markets

Private placement secondary sales blamed for sluggish Gulf primary market

Francesca Young, September 17, 2026

GlobalCapital Podcast

Friendship has limits

Jon Hay, September 18, 2026

Syndicated Loans

Middle East loans to catch 2025 level by year end

Martin Miraglia, September 17, 2026

Emerging Markets

Private placement secondary sales blamed for sluggish Gulf primary market

Francesca Young, September 17, 2026

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Asia

Nomura's head of Asia ECM syndicate exits

Nomura’s head of equity syndicate for Asia ex-Japan Ortwin Gierhake is no longer with the firm, sources close to the matter said.

John Loh, April 16, 2018
Asia

President Xi shows how to make stalling look like reform

Chinese president Xi Jinping delivered the message everybody wanted to hear: despite the trade spat with the US, China will keep opening up its markets to foreign firms. But the speech was light on substance. The remarks feel like more of China’s vintage ‘stall and delay’ strategy rather than the much-touted ‘new era’. That could backfire, especially since Donald Trump seems hell-bent on making his aggressive trade policy towards China a reality.

Paolo Danese, April 16, 2018
EM LatAm

Buenos Aires bank looking at peso-linked deal

Banco de la Ciudad de Buenos Aires (Banco Ciudad) is lining up a potential international bond outing after mandating banks for an Argentine peso-linked trade.

Oliver West, April 16, 2018
Asia

Chinese property companies dole out three year bonds

Chinese real estate companies Cifi Holdings Group Co and Fujian Yango Group Co rolled out three year dollar bonds on Thursday, paying investors hefty premiums to get their deals done.

Morgan Davis, April 13, 2018
Asia

Yuexiu bags $1.2bn as Founder Group finds PB support

Yuexiu Property Company priced a two-tranche dollar bond on Thursday but decided to ditch a potential offshore renminbi deal. Separately, Peking University Founder Group Co returned with another bond with a keepwell structure for $425m.

Addison Gong, April 13, 2018
Asia

RMB round-up: China to open up ‘at its own pace’, regulators ease grip on outbound flows, new RMB ETF launches

China rejects suggestions that it is speeding up liberalisation due to US pressure, regulators tout the rebooting of outbound investment channels, and China International Capital Corporation (CICC) and KraneShares make an ETF tracking Chinese internet companies available in renminbi.

Noah Sin, April 13, 2018