Saudi dairy and poultry producer Almarai settled for a 1.6 billion Riyal sukuk issuance after previously stating it was looking for a 2 billion issuance depending on "market conditions", which it seems were not present to allow it to achieve its target issuance amount. Sukuk tend to be heavily oversubscribed and the fact that Almarai was not only able to hit its desired issuance amount, let alone ... »

Indicative Sukuk prices are provided for a number of liquid sukuk. »

The report concludes "The Sukuk market should continue to perform well as supply has waned this year, although there is expectation that some GCC countries may want to finance their budget deficits by borrowing in the debt capital markets which would lead to some welcome supply in the market." »

The Bloomberg Malaysia Sukuk Ex-MYR Total Return (BMSXMTR) closed flat at 101.63 (week prior: +0.04%, 101.63) while the Dow Jones Sukuk Total Return Index (DJSUKTXR) rose marginally by 0.02% to 154.58 (week prior: -0.16% to 154.55). The weighted average yield of BMSXMTR widened 1.1bps to 2.36%. Worst performers are FGBUH 16, MALAYS 21-25, RAKS 25, ISDB 17 for 3rd week in a row, shedding USD19.38m ... »

SapuraKencana Petroleum, Malaysia's leading oil and gas company, announced it had issued $200 million worth of sukuk on Tuesday to refinance some of its debt. The issuance, the first tranche of a multicurrency, medium-term notes program, is being offered through wholly owned subsidiary SapuraKencana TMC. The deal was priced at 4.85% with a seven year maturity and marked a rate foreign currency suk... »

Spreads on 10 year Malaysian sukuk over conventional have more than halved since being added to the Barclays Capital Aggregate Bond Index. Malaysia's Shariah-compliant government investment issues were included in the Barclays Global Aggregate Index on March 31, with a weighting of 0.18 percent. At the time of the announcement it was estimated the move would attract at least $2.5 billion to $3 bil... »

Sukuk gained marginally c.0.04%; yield rose to 2.353%. The Bloomberg Malaysia Sukuk Ex-MYR Total Return (BMSXMTR) ended flat (+0.04% WoW) at 101.63 (week prior: -0.22% to 101.59), with weighted average yield widening 1.0bps to 2.353% (week prior: +5.9bps to 2.343%). »

In an interview with the African Leadership Network, Lamin Manjang, CEO Standard Chartered Kenya stated the Kenyan government has previously stated it wishes to go down the route of a sovereign sukuk issuance, and that Standard Chartered Kenya is leveraging off the banks international experience in issuing sukuk to assist the Ministry of Finance. »

IILM issued two sukuk, a three month $490 million issuance with a 3 month maturity was sold at a profit rate of 0.633%, and a longer six month issuance for $500 million was sold at a profit rate of 0.929%. The IILM is an international institution established by central banks, monetary agencies and multilateral organisations to introduce and facilitate effective cross-border Shari’ah-compliant liqu... »

Rating agency Standard and Poor's says regulation and fiscal incentives could speed Sharia compliant finance development in Africa. The report further noted that African sovereigns have issued only about $1 billion of Sukuk instruments, compared with global Sukuk issuance of an average $100 billion per year over the past five years. »