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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
Sovereign's $3bn deal tightens well as Asian demand returns
The sovereign's public and private bonds of similar maturities are trading over 25bp apart

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  • Shares in Digi Communications, the recently listed Romanian telecoms and media group, closed below its IPO price on Thursday, after it confirmed on Wednesday that its CEO Serghei Bulgac had been included in a bribery and money laundering investigation that had already involved two senior executives and a former CEO.
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  • Chinese and other Asian banks are catching up with Western rivals in the emerging market loan market and, as Bianca Boorer reports, look set to keep growing their market share.
  • Just a day after EM bankers were predicting an endless summer of bond market bliss, came a US-led market wobble, which rival bankers said has caused leads to put the brakes on an expected trade from Lithuania.
  • Vietnam Prosperity Joint Stock Commercial Bank is drumming up interest for its planned IPO, set to be one of the largest in the country at $250m. The trade is already in hot demand, as foreign interest in the country grows and domestic investors seek out more stocks. Jonathan Breen reports.
  • The Republic of the Maldives is looking to raise $200m from its debut international bond this year. Market watchers reckon the planned deal falls in line with China’s Belt and Road initiative, mirroring Sri Lanka’s choice earlier this month to hire Chinese banks for its dollar trade. Morgan Davis reports.