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A handful of large new listings have emerged from South Africa, Kenya and Angola and more are set to follow
Conflict marks inflection point for investment banks as syndicated loan exposure and crushed bond fees come under scrutiny
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The Emirate of Sharjah is returning to the international bond market just months after its last visit, but this time marketing a sukuk that will place it among the ranks of major emerging market issuers — both sovereign and corporate — to have raised cash at competitive levels recently with the Sharia-compliant instrument. -
China’s cybersecurity task force has ordered online platforms Full Truck Alliance (FTA) and Kanzhun, both recently listed in New York, to stop signing up new users. The move came immediately after the regulator ordered ride-hailing service Didi to be removed from mobile app stores.
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South Korea’s busy IPO market is continuing to pump out deals, with the latest listings coming from Kakao Pay and Covid-19 test maker SD Biosensor. But issuers still have to be realistic, as Krafton found out when it shot for, but missed, the country’s largest ever IPO.
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Yunnan Provincial Energy Investment Group, a Chinese state-owned company, has returned to the loan market after three years for a sustainability-linked facility.
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Bank of China has notched yet another first in Asia’s debt market. The firm’s Hong Kong arm has raised Rmb1.5bn ($232m) from an offshore dim sum bond tagged as a ‘sustainable and smart living’ green deal, aimed at meeting the Mainland’s ambitious carbon neutrality goals.
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Colombia’s sovereign bonds experienced a modest sell-off on Friday after Fitch become the second rating agency in less than two months to downgrade the government’s credit rating to sub-investment grade. But analysts noted that the market was already largely expecting the downgrade, which is likely to limit further widening.
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