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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

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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

6 days ago

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