The choice of sovereign paper available to emerging market debt investors is getting larger. Starting with issues such as the Lebanon global bond issued two years ago, countries such as Estonia, Kazakhstan, Moldavia and Oman have issued debt on the international markets for the first time. And a debut £50 million floating-rate note issue is expected in the first half of this year from Sri Lanka.
Although the large-scale emerging market issues in the last few years have come from Mexico and Argentina and have continued so far this year with large issues from both countries in January new sovereign issuers have started a trend for accessing international capital markets.
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