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  • Banco de Oro shone with its lower tier-two bond issue in May, demonstrating the depth of local investor demand for the right name at the right price.
  • Binariang GSM’s multi-tranche Islamic bond issue was the largest local currency bond from emerging Asia and involved virtually every investor in Malaysia. The deal stretched the country’s fast-growing Islamic bond market to its limits.
  • Shinhan became the first bank in Korea to build its own fixed-rate mortgage franchise and consequently the first bank to issue a fixed-rate RMBS. The deal enabled it to meet its business needs despite appalling credit markets.
  • Emirates Telecom’s opportunistic purchase of a 45% stake in Swan Telecom stood out in 2008, in what was a poor year for the country’s equity and bond markets. The deal neatly enabled it to gain instant access to the world’s second largest mobile market.
  • The IPO of coal firm Indika Energy in June 2008 provides a textbook example of perfect timing, with the commodity cycle still in full swing. The deal ended up 15 times oversubscribed and boasted a quality order book.
  • China Railway Construction Corp.’s dual Hong Kong and Shanghai IPO wowed investors back in March, and despite dramatic declines in both stock markets, its shares have held up impressively.