After breaking records last year with its inaugural US$17.5bn bond, saudi arabia is back eyeing a jumbo sukuk transaction. The kingdom kickstarts three days of meetings from Sunday, covering ground in Abu Dhabi, Dubai and London. Saudi is expected to raise several billion (though probably not as much as the US$10bn that has been mooted) across five and 10-year tranches, and will no doubt grab investors' attention even for instruments carrying the added complexity of a sukuk structure.
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