Middle East
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Turkish food manufacturer Ülker has closed a $375m loan from 12 banks, marking the first corporate deal since the attempted military coup last year. -
China’s economy grows faster than expected in the first quarter of 2017, the head of State Administration of Foreign Exchange (Safe) meets with the deputy governor of the World Bank, and Citic says demand for cross-border financing activity is on the rise.
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Saudi Arabia’s $9bn sukuk was, for the second time, a staggering market debut from the sovereign. But size came at a price and the issuer paid up over its conventional curve, writes Virginia Furness.
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Mubadala raised $1.5bn in the bond market on Tuesday with a dual tranche seven and 12 year deal, the deal was well subscribed but didn’t come as tight to the sovereign as Mubadala’s previous issue.
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Orders for Saudi Arabia’s debut sukuk were over $25bn on Wednesday morning allowing the borrower to tighten pricing ever closer to its conventional curve.
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Orders for Saudi Arabia’s debut sukuk were over $17.5bn at the first official update on Tuesday afternoon.
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Two large emerging market corporates were out with multi-tranche deals on Tuesday, Kazakhstan’s state owned oil company and Abu Dhabi sovereign investment fund Mubadala.
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Issuers from the Gulf have taken over emerging markets bonds with Saudi Arabia on track to print its debut sukuk on Tuesday. Multiple tranche deals are the flavour of the week with Romania, Mubadala and KazmunayGas all offering multi-faceted deals.
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Saudi Arabia was offering up a 20bp-25bp NIP over its conventional bonds at price talk for its debut sukuk on Tuesday, as banker’s debated where the deal will land relative to it’s conventional bond debut.
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The Dubai Gold and Commodities Exchange (DGCX) on Sunday announced the launch of a Shanghai Gold futures contract, increasing foreign investors' access to China's bullion market.
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Dubai retailer Damac Real Estate was out with a five year sukuk on Monday — a deal which featured a Russian bookrunner for the first time on a Gulf deal — as Mubadala marketed a conventional dual tranche dollar bond following its merger with IPIC.
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The third largest private sector bank in India, Axis Bank, has provided a $295m loan to Aster DM Healthcare after it failed to alter the terms on a previous loan.
