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Cat bond market to hit $50bn by 2018The number of catastrophe or cat bonds outstanding could more than double from the current level of $19 billion to $50 billion by the end of 2018, according to a report from BNY Mellon, the global leader in investment management and investment s More… |
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Saudi Electricity picks banks for sukuk issuesSaudi Electricity Company plans to issue Islamic bonds denominated in both riyals and dollars in coming months and has selected banks to arrange the offers, banking sources aware of the matter said. The monopoly utility has large More… |
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Saudi Electricity picks banks for sukuk issuesSaudi Electricity Company plans to issue Islamic bonds denominated in both riyals and dollars in coming months and has selected banks to arrange the offers, banking sources aware of the matter said. The monopoly utility has large More… |
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Abu Dhabi to list govt bonds on own exchangeAbu Dhabi's government said it would list its bonds on its own Securities Exchange as well as in London, in a sign of growing competition among financial centres for the region's business. Many Gulf governments and compani More… |
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Saudi cen bank not worried about US debt limitThe central bank of Saudi Arabia, one of the world's top holders of US government bonds, said on Saturday it was not worried by the political deadlock in Washington that could cause the United States to default on its debt. As More… |
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Lebanon selling govt bonds to boost liquidityLebanon's central bank has been selling some of its holdings of international bonds issued by the Lebanese government to improve its foreign currency liquidity, central bank governor Riad Salameh said on Sunday. "The cent More… |
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Emirates mulls $4.5bn bonds for new aircraftEmirates, Dubai's flagship airline, may issue bonds early next year to help raise $4.5 billion for 21 new plane deliveries in the financial year starting April 2014, a senior company official said on Tuesday. Brian Jeffery, se More… |
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Saudi regulator eyes sukuk market expansionSaudi Arabian authorities intend to expand the country's market in Islamic bonds by making it easier for companies to issue sukuk, the head of the Capital Market Authority said on Sunday. "We are not satisfied with the cu More… |
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Qatar cbank to issue $1.1bn in bonds, sukukQatar's central bank plans to issue 3 billion riyals ($824 million) worth of local currency government bonds and 1 billion riyals of sukuk next week, it said on Thursday. The debt, to be issued on Sept. 10, will include three- More… |
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Egypt says ready to repay Qatari loan in daysEgypt is prepared to repay within days $2 billion that Qatar deposited with Egypt's central bank in May if talks to convert the funds into bonds do not succeed, a central bank official said on Wednesday. "This supposedly More… |
