Middle East
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State-owned Abu Dhabi National Oil Co. (Adnoc) launched a $6bn debut syndicated loan this week after increasing the credit’s size and tightening pricing in response to banks’ hunger for it. -
Two Middle Eastern sovereigns this week showed the depth and breadth investor demand for EM credit this week, one with a high quality jumbo $10bn trade, and the other, junk rated, with a bold 30 year trade that took full advantage of ideal funding conditions.
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State-owned Abu Dhabi National Oil Co (Adnoc) has kicked off the syndication of its first syndicated loan for $6bn, after increasing its size and tightening pricing further in response to high demand for the facility.
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Turkish oil refiner Tüpraş will start roadshowing a 10 year dollar bond on Friday, but the issuer’s links to Iran are expected to raise questions on the roadshow.
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Global Education Management Systems (GEMS) Education of Dubai is to launch a $1.2bn syndicated loan, ahead of its planned initial public offering early next year.
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If it’s large, liquid and high grade, or small, obscure with a decent yield, it will fly. If it’s a repeat issuer, small in size, and tightly priced, it won’t. That is the status in EM according to debt capital markets bankers.
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With 65m people displaced worldwide, the refugee crisis can seem insurmountable. But despite this daunting scale, initiatives are being tried that could help some of those affected. Citigroup’s charitable foundation is giving $2m to a project to train refugees for the job market and entrepreneurship, in Greece, Jordan and Nigeria.
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The Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan served plenty of yield up to investors on Monday, proving that it is not just the double-A rated names which enjoy access to long dated funding in emerging market bonds. The deal traded up two cash points on Tuesday which drew a mixed response from market participants.
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Middle Eastern banks are diversifying their funding portfolios by entering the international syndicated loan market for the first time, with Bahrain Islamic Bank (BisB) signing a deal at the end of September and two more due to sign this month.
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Abu Dhabi was on track on Tuesday morning to print the second blowout trade from the Gulf in a week following Saudi Arabia's $12.5bn sale last Wednesday. It was also able to drive pricing through Saudi Arabia’s secondary curve, having taken orders of $30bn.
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Shares in Hapag-Lloyd, the German container shipping line, are holding up well as the subscription period for its €352m rights issue begins.
