Middle East
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Turkey's international bond market access is once again in question. Rising US Treasury yields have put affordable dollar funding beyond the sovereign for now, bankers believe, undoing the good done by a move back to orthodox monetary policy late last year, after months of inflation and a plunging lira. A rate hike next week may help restore issuance prospects, writes Mariam Meskin. -
Saudi Arabia’s sovereign wealth fund, the Public Investment Fund, has signed a $15bn multi-currency revolving credit facility with a syndicate of 17 international banks. Loan market conditions, participants said, are still attractive for borrowers, despite a drought of deals over the last year.
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Oman's Bank Muscat this week returned to debt markets after a brief hiatus to sell a dollar bond. The deal was one of only a few across CEEMEA this week, as market participants say interest rate volatility is still deterring issuance.
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Turkish lender Akbank is in the syndicated loan market with its debut ESG deal, according to sources. The bank has been able to tighten pricing on the refinancing, meaning that it has enough competitively priced funding for it not to need to come to the bond market.
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Rosatom, the Russian nuclear power company, is using a $300m sustainability-linked loan for part of the financing of Akkuyu, the first nuclear power plant to be built in Turkey — a sign of how fast and far the concept of sustainability-linked finance is spreading.
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Rising oil prices will boost economic growth across the Middle East, possibly reducing reliance on capital markets funding. But the immediate concern for markets will be the path of interest rates.
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Modest order books and higher new issue concessions for dollar and euro issues this week showed that emerging markets borrowers are operating in a different market to a month ago, before inflation concerns had brought non-stop volatility to US Treasury markets.
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On Wednesday, the Emirate of Sharjah sold a $1.25bn dual tranche bond. Though the issuer conceded that market conditions were not "perfect", given sustained volatility in US Treasuries, this week’s deal allowed the state to extend its credit curve.
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Mamoura Diversified Global Holding, an Abu Dhabi sovereign investment vehicle, launched a euro bond on Thursday. Issuers with access to and a need for both currencies, investors said, will find a haven in the euro market while volatility in dollar yields continues.
