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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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  • Landlocked South American country Paraguay is looking at the possibility of creating a sovereign wealth fund as part of a possible adjustment of its fiscal responsibility law, deputy finance minister Humberto Colman Castillo told GlobalMarkets.
  • Kuwait’s Burgan Bank has signed a $350m loan with a club of seven relationship banks to refinance borrowing done in 2015.
  • Personal computer maker Lenovo priced a $750m deal on Thursday as part of a liability management exercise, switching some investors out of an old bond that will mature next year. But like others in the market, the borrower had to pay a double-digit new issue premium to ensure success.
  • Shandong Iron & Steel Group Co and a Chinese government-owned entity from Xuzhou both took a cautious approach to their dollar bonds on Thursday in a market that has become increasingly volatile.
  • Chinese regulators are cracking down on foreign currency trading, going after brokers who have flouted restrictions by operating in a legal grey area. GlobalRMB investigates.
  • A jaw-dropping $20bn of investor orders poured in for Naspers’s overnight share sale in Hong Kong-listed Tencent Holdings, in a deal one banker summed up as "a huge success, and a landmark for all involved".