This week Marisol Vázquez-Mellado Mollón, CFO at Grupo Kuo, discusses why they chose the syndicated loan market for their recent transaction and forecasts Mexico’s GDP growth projects for the next 12-24 months.
21 Aug 2015
In this interview, Rodolfo Campos, Treasurer at PEMEX, explains the thought process behind their recent bond issuance and discusses his country's GDP growth projections.
21 Aug 2015
Fehmi Demirkol, Corporate Finance and Business Development Director at Palmet Enerji, explains what options are available to Turkish mid-tier corporates when looking at accessing the debt market.
21 Aug 2015
Brian Hoey, MENA Corporate Trust Sales and Relationship Management, BNY Mellon, discusses what opportunities exist for issuers in the Turkish covered bond markets and how they are structured.
21 Aug 2015
Otoyol’s Gebze-İzmir Motorway Project are in contention for 4 Awards at this year’s Bonds & Loans Turkey Awards. After votes from more than 5000 individuals, Otoyol remained on-course to win Awards for Syndicated Loan Deal of the Year, Project Finance Deal of the Year, Transport Finance Deal of other Year and Infrastructure Finance Deal of the Year. Elsewhere, YDA are amongst the finalists in 5…
20 Aug 2015
DIFC and DUBAL made late charges in the final hours of voting Monday night to secure their positions for the Final of this year’s Bonds, Loans & Sukuk Middle East Awards. DIFC started the day in 6th position for both the Investment Grade Bond/Sukuk and 5th Sovereign Financing Deal Categories but moved up 3 positions in the final hours, finally finishing in 2nd position and securing a Finalist…
20 Aug 2015
Sharjah Islamic Bank (SIB) and Zakher Marine were amongst the big gainers this week after another 3000 qualified votes were collected. Sharjah Islamic Bank moved from 10th in the Investment Grade Bond/Sukuk Deal of the Year category to 1st while Zakher Marine moved from 8th to 1st in the Syndicated Loan Deal of the Year, and from 7th to 1st in the Syndicated Loan by a Debut Borrower categories.
17 Aug 2015
YDA’s Dalaman Airport Project and Kayseri PPP Healthcare Project stormed to the top of the Bonds & Loans Awards Leader Boards in 5 categories. Neither project were amongst the leaders in any category after the first week of voting, however in a week YDA’s projects have emerged amongst the front-runners for a prize at this year’s Awards.
17 Aug 2015
In June this year, we sat down with Stuart Anderson, Managing Director and Regional Head at Standard & Poor’s Middle East, to discuss why companies must start preparing to raise capital in the bond and sukuk markets, rather than relying on bank loan markets after the drop in oil pricing.
14 Aug 2015
Harj Rai, Partner at Latham & Watkins LLP, shares his view at our Bonds, Loans & Sukuk Middle East conference on what is driving the globalization of sukuk.
14 Aug 2015