Nigeria

Nigeria’s Fidelity Bank has seen its freshly printed $400m five year paper rocket in the secondary market after pricing the bond on Wednesday.

Nigeria’s Fidelity Bank has caught the eye of yield hungry investors after announcing initial price thoughts of 11% area on a five year dollar trade.

Pan-Africa lender Guaranty Trust Bank has bought back $123.1bn of its outstanding bonds, making it the second African bank to address its upcoming maturities. Nigeria’s Fidelity Bank is looking to issue fresh debt to finance a buy-back of its $300m 2018s.

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Nigeria’s Fidelity Bank is planning to finance a buy-back of its $300m notes due 2018 with a new issue, as the country’s banks look to address upcoming maturities in 2018 and 2019.

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Nigeria last week priced the first ever SEC-registered diaspora bond, raising $300m from a novel funding source made up of Nigerian expatriates. And continuing its bid to diversify its funding kit, the sovereign has now turned its sights to a naira denominated sukuk.

Nigeria’s debut diaspora dollar bond sold off sharply in secondary trading as the decline in oil prices weighed on investor sentiment.

Atlas Mara, the London-listed company co-founded by Bob Diamond that invests in African financial services, announced a $200m equity capital raising on Wednesday, most of which will be taken up by Fairfax Africa Holdings Corp.

Nigeria priced sub-Saharan Africa’s first diaspora bond comfortably inside initial indications on Tuesday after two days of bookbuilding. However, the bonds, which were printed at 5.625%, had widened to nearly 6% by midday Tuesday and have stayed around that level.

Etisalat has been given until Friday to transfer all its shares in Etisalat Nigeria to a syndicate of 13 Nigerian banks, after talks on restructuring a $1.2bn loan from 2013 fell through.

It is tale of the haves and have nots in EM this week as Argentina’s surprise 100 year bond received a $10bn book but Nigeria’s diaspora bond underwhelmed and prompted a widening of the sub-Saharan African sector.