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Dilawer Farazi hires co-ahead of EM debt at Loomis Sayles.

Loomis, Sayles & Company has announced that Dilawer Faraz has rejoined the firm as co-head and portfolio manager of the firm's emerging markets debt team. Based in London, he was previously senior credit research analyst at Loomis Sayles and then Royal London Asset Management as head of the emerging markets credit team. Faraz will be responsible for co-managing EMD strategies alongside Elisabeth Colleran, co-head of the EMD Team. David Waldman, chief investment officer of Loo

Nov 20

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Dilawer Farazi hires co-ahead of EM debt at Loomis Sayles.

Loomis, Sayles & Company has announced that Dilawer Faraz has rejoined the firm as co-head and portfolio manager of the firm's emerging markets debt team. Based in London, he was previously senior credit research analyst at Loomis Sayles and then Royal London Asset Management as head of the emerging markets credit team. Faraz will be responsible for co-managing EMD strategies alongside Elisabeth Colleran, co-head of the EMD Team. David Waldman, chief investment officer of Loo

Nov 20

Corporate & sovereign EM debt issuance reaches record high

Total issuance of corporate and sovereign bonds in 17 emerging markets reached a record high of $286 billion year to date in September, according to S&P Global. This exceeds the previous high reached in 2021. S&P says a weaker US dollar and lower inflation has helped boost issuance. The 17 countries covered are: Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Egypt, India, Indonesia, Malaysia, Mexico, Nigeria, Peru, the Philippines, Saudi Arabia, South Africa, Thailand, Turkey and Vietn

Nov 7

Marex launches emerging markets credit desk in London

The new desk will combine agency execution with principal risk-taking across sovereign and corporate debt. It will be headed by Aaron Fernandes, head of European and Asian emerging markets, with Matthew Vogel, Head of EM strategy and Paul Timmons, senior trader. Chief Strategist and CEO of Capital Markets, Paolo Tonucci, said, “Expanding in credit is central to building a full-service offering for our clients. EM credit rewards experience, speed and thoughtful use of balance

Oct 30

ISI Markets launch new AI platform for sovereign EMD

ISI Markets has launched REDD for Sovereign Debt, an AI-driven platform providing insights into sovereign and government-related risks for investors and analysts. The platform integrates data and intelligence to allow analysis of emerging markets issuers of hard currency bonds, along with detailed financial models and corporate structures for SOEs. The functionality of platform includes: ● Full universe of hard-currency sovereign bond issuers across emerging and frontier

Oct 22

FTSE Russell upgrades Vietnam to emerging markets

FTSE Russell has reclassified Vietnam as a secondary emerging market from frontier, taking effect from 21 September 2026. With $18.1trn of funds benchmarked to its indices, FTSE says Vietnam had met all of its criteria for secondary emerging market status. The vendor does say that reclassification will depend on enough progress being made in providing access to global brokers needed to support index replication. David Sol, global head of policy at FTSE Russell, said, “FTSE R

Oct 14

Kuwait raises $11.25bn in sovereign bond sale

Kuwait has raised $11.25 billion in its first global debt market issue since 2017. It included $3.25 billion of 3-year notes, $3 billion of 5-year bonds, and $5 billion of 10-year. They are priced at 40bp over Treasuries for the shorter maturities and 50bp for the 10-year. The transaction was led by Citi, Goldman Sachs International, HSBC, J.P. Morgan, and Mizuho as Joint Global Coordinators. The transaction was 2.5 times oversubscribed with 66% of allocations going to invest

Oct 14