Middle East
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Zero-E the company that holds the wind, solar and thermal assets of Actividades de Construcción y Servicios has found a private buyer for its Spanish renewables assets, making an IPO unlikely. -
Samba Financial Group sold its $500m seven year bond on Wednesday from a book of $2.3bn. A syndicate official on the deal said that follow-on demand from the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia triple tranche print on Tuesday helped to propel the deal.
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Bahraini investment group Gulf Finance House printed its $300m five year sukuk on Tuesday from a book of more than $750m.
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Saudi Arabia scored a triple tranche dollar deal inside its own curve on Tuesday, raising cash at seven, 12 and 35 years. Samba Financial Group has since followed its sovereign into the market with its own deal.
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Bahraini investment group Gulf Finance House is targeting a $300m five year issue for its debut international sukuk.
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Two CEEMEA sovereigns are taking the plunge this week — the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia with a triple tranche dollar benchmark and Romania with a dual tranche euro bond.
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Frequent syndicated loan borrower and United Arab Emirates-based aircraft lessor Dubai Aerospace Enterprise has raised a $300m term loan with Chinese banks.
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Qatar Islamic Bank this week printed the Gulf region’s first Formosa sukuk, as issuers there stepped up their use of increasingly attractive Asian debt markets.
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Turkey lender TSKB printed its $400m five year senior bond on Wednesday inside its own curve. The sale drew a $3.9bn book, allowing a big tightening from initial guidance to pricing. Following the clear success of the deal, other Turkish banks are expected to follow, starting with Isbank which was straight in with its own subordinated bond on Thursday.
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Turkey's primary equity capital markets opened for the first time since 2018 on Wednesday as an undisclosed group of shareholders set out to sell 1.9% of Akbank.
