Middle East
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Industrial and Commercial Bank of China has bolstered its loan syndication and sales effort in London with a hire as the bank looks to establish a stronger foothold in the Europe, Middle East and Africa market. -
The Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) region looks set to provide a hotbed of loans market activity in the first half of 2017, with bankers sizing up a strong pipeline out of Oman as the sultanate looks to address a budget deficit.
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Israel reopened the CEEMEA bond market in style on Wednesday, placing a rare 20 year euro bond, part of a €2.25bn dual tranche offering, which enabled the issuer to tap into new investors.
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Export Development Canada showed on Wednesday that despite some big deals this year in fives, there is still plenty of demand in the three year part of the dollar curve as it took the rare step of increasing a deal from its initial size target. The trade came as a trio of other dollar deals hit screens.
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Israel burst onto screens on Wednesday to open CEEMEA issuance for 2017. A popular name with investors, the 20bp premium offered at initial price thoughts seemed to go down well with the €6.5bn of orders submitted before lunch.
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Latin American issuers are leading the charge to primary markets this year so far in emerging market bonds but Wednesday saw the first CEEMEA issuer to open books as Israel tried a dual tranche 10 and 20 year trade.
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Gulf International Bank kicked off investor meetings this week for what could be the first publicly syndicated bond from the Middle East this year.
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Oman Oil and Bank Muscat are set to kick off a rash of loans in the sultanate in the coming months, with a number of state owned entities in discussion with lenders as the government looks to address a budget deficit.
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Dubai is close to picking banks for a $3bn loan to fund its airport expansion, according to loan officials, while flydubai is also in talks with banks. But discussion of a deal to back the emirate’s metro development plans are said to have “gone quiet” as the state seeks to avoid deal congestion.
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Equity capital markets in Emea reopened after the holidays this week, with details of the first new capital increases in France and the UK being made public.
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Turkish borrowers face a tough year as security concerns about the country threaten access to a funding market that is already expected to suffer volatility. But bankers say it is business as usual in Turkey, and investors agree that Turkish spreads are still an attractive prospect.
