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Barclays is 21st in the CEEMEA bond league table so far in 2026
International investor participation in the region remains light
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Market participants will embark in the coming weeks on the difficult task of working out how to use the European Union’s sustainable finance Taxonomy, after the first criteria were published this week. In doing so, they will be conscious that the smooth tide of green finance is now breaking against the hard reality of power politics and resistance by fossil fuel industries — a clash that is rocking the Taxonomy’s credibility, writes Jon Hay. -
The long-running debate in the European Union about how to optimise its development finance effort and strengthen its role in sub-Saharan Africa is tending towards the most basic of the possible options: closer collaboration between the European Investment Bank and the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development.
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Bank of China sold one of its high-profile multi-currency, multi-tranche bond deals on Wednesday. The trade, which spanned five of the bank's global branches, raised a combined $2.35bn.
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Freelance financial journalists in China have found a new source of work — disgruntled wives out to shame their husbands.
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The government of Malaysia has made a triumphant return to the bond market, raising $1.3bn from a dual tranche sukuk. The inclusion of a sustainability label meant a diverse set of investors flocked to the trade, allowing the sovereign to surpass its initial size goal. Morgan Davis reports.
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Airtel Africa, the UK telecommunication company providing services across Africa, has raised $500m from a range of international lenders. It becomes one of the latest Africa-based issuers to inject activity into the syndicated loan market.
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