Robust Investor Appetite Marks Emirates Islamic’s Return to International Market with US$500m Benchmark Sukuk Wakala Offering as GCC Banks’ Post-pandemic Recovery Continues

Emirates Islamic Bank (EIB), one of the leading Islamic financial institutions in the UAE, successfully closed the issuance of its latest Sukuk offering - a benchmark US$500 million 5-year Sukuk…

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Saudi NDMC Issues Eighth Consecutive Monthly Domestic Sukuk in August as Total for January-August 2021 passes SAR59.55bn (US$15.87bn)

The National Debt Management Centre (NDMC) of the Saudi Ministry of Finance (MoF) issued its eighth consecutive monthly issuance of Riyal-denominated sovereign Sukuk with a three-tranche SAR11,358.615 million (US$3,028.18 million)…

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Uzbekistan Leverages IsDB Development Funding Partnership as Template for Other Countries as Tashkent Closes in on Introducing New Legal and Regulatory Framework to Facilitate Islamic Finance

It certainly helps when you host the Annual Meetings of the Islamic Development Bank (IsDB) Group and you are in the middle of an ambitious economic and socio-political reform agenda.…

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