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Bahrain Mumtalakat, the country’s sovereign wealth fund, printed its $500m bond on Tuesday at 4.25% having tightened 62.5bp from initial guidance.

Prosus, the international internet business spun off by South Africa-headquartered Naspers in September, has released initial pricing guidance for a 10 year dollar benchmark at a level two analysts called attractive, given the company’s 31% stake in Chinese tech giant Tencent.

The Association for Financial Markets in Europe (Afme) has proposed changes to the European Union’s equivalence framework. While its report is framed as dealing with the framework in general, rather than specifically with the UK after Brexit, many of its proposals would make an equivalence agreement with the exiting state easier to reach if enacted.

Emerging markets telecommunications firm Veon, formerly Vimpelcom, is topping up the $700m 4% April 2025s it sold in October by up to $300m, seemingly aiming to complete the size of bond originally planned.

Turkiye Sinai Kalkinma Bankasi (TSKB) is planning to print a five year senior unsecured dollar bond on Wednesday. A lead manager on the deal said that the size of the note is likely to be below benchmark because the bank has limited liquidity needs.

First Abu Dhabi Bank printed a quick $500m five year Reg S sukuk on Tuesday morning in London. Because the deal was driven by reverse enquiry, leads started the execution process by announcing final guidance.

UBS can sponsor Hong Kong IPOs again, the city’s financial regulator announced on Tuesday after lifting a ban imposed on the bank in March last year.

Sandrine Ferdane has been appointed BNP Paribas’s new global head of financial institutions coverage (FIC), replacing José Placido, who has a new role as chief executive of the corporate and investment bank for the Americas.

Murray Roos, former joint head of equities at Citi, has turned up at London Stock Exchange Group.

The loan market’s trade bodies are preparing to give new guidance about how to ensure sustainability-linked loans — in which borrowers can get a margin reduction if they hit sustainability targets — are genuinely “ambitious”. Bankers want to protect the market from rising concerns that some deals’ terms are too easy on the borrowers.

A week that started with a panic about the potential for conflict between Iran and the US appeared to end with capital market issuance conditions so good as to be marked “10 out of 10”. As the loan market defied Middle East risk, borrowers and bond bankers are gearing up for a week ahead of huge issuance, while equity bankers are ruing missed opportunities. Sam Kerr, Mariam Meskin and Francesca Young report.

The State of Israel printed a $3bn dual tranche dollar bond on Thursday from a combined book of $20bn, helping to buoy confidence in the CEEMEA market as US-Iran tensions faded. The bond was Israel’s largest ever deal and its tightest price in terms of spread.