MANAMA: Gulf International Bank (GIB) is participating as ‘gold sponsor’ of the Bonds, Loans and Sukuk Middle East conference that started yesterday.
The two-day event is taking place at the Intercontinental Festival City, Dubai.
GIB is joining more than 1,000 issuers, borrowers and other industry professionals to discuss developments in the local and international bond, syndicated loan and sukuk markets.
Representing GIB at the conference are GIB Capital head of debt capital markets Roderick Gordon and vice-president of debt capital markets Mahmoud Nawar.
On day one, Mr Gordon and Mr Nawar took part in key panel sessions addressing Pricing through the volatility: bridging expectations of buyers and sellers and The business case for conventional issuers to debut in the sukuk market: Costs, liquidity, trading performance (in times of high volatility), respectively.
As a regional investment banking pioneer, GIB has been active in the GCC capital markets for almost two decades through offices in Riyadh, Bahrain and Abu Dhabi.
This includes a highly active presence in debt capital markets issuances (Islamic and conventional), syndications, debt restructurings and strategic advisory.
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