Baghdad’s talks with Turkey about ramping up oil exports from northern Iraq, including the semi-autonomous Kurdish region, is complicated by a $4 billion debt that the Kurds owe to Turkey, according to Iraq’s oil minister, Bloomberg News reported. Iraq is seeking an agreement with Turkey for all exports from the north, including the Kurdish region and the disputed province of Kirkuk, through a pipeline currently operated by the Kurds, Jabbar al-Luaibi told reporters in Baghdad. Iraq’s state-run Oil Marketing Co., known as SOMO, would control all exports under the agreement, he said.

Bahrain has asked Gulf Arab allies for financial assistance as it seeks to replenish its foreign-exchange reserves and avert a currency devaluation that could reverberate across the region, according to people with knowledge of the talks. The request was made to Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates, two of the people said. A third person said Kuwait was also asked.

A Middle Eastern energy company that has questioned the lawfulness of its own sukuk won’t settle the $700 million worth of debt owed to investors, according to people familiar with the matter. Dana Gas PJSC, the Sharjah, United Arab Emirates-based energy producer, has no plans to repay the two mudaraba sukuk of $350 million in size each due Oct. 31, and the company is confident it will win a court case with bondholders, the two people said, asking not to be identified because the information is private, Bloomberg News reported.

Dubai’s Drydocks World has returned to the courts to push through a $2.1bn debt restructuring, clearing the path for the troubled ship-repair business’ sale to a sister company, DP World, the emirate’s port operator, the Financial Times reported. The maritime engineering business, a unit of the government-owned Dubai World conglomerate, in 2012 had to use bespoke insolvency legislation to finalise its first restructuring after a hedge fund won a judgment against the firm for defaulting.

Saudi Arabia will begin implementing a new bankruptcy law early next year as part of efforts to attract foreign investment and encourage private sector activity, Saudi-owned broadcaster Al Arabiya reported citing the kingdom’s commerce minister. Under current legislation there is no easy way to wind up the activities of indebted companies in Saudi Arabia and the new law could help with government plans to restructure the economy and make it more attractive to outside investors, Reuters reported.

A London lawsuit over $700 million in Shariah-compliant bonds issued by Dana Gas PJSC will go ahead despite a last-minute United Arab Emirates court order that attempted to stop the company from taking part in the trial, Bloomberg News reported. Dana Gas stunned investors and the Islamic finance community when it announced in June that it had reviewed its own bonds and found they were not Shariah compliant. Bondholders, led by Goldman Sachs Group Inc. and BlackRock Inc., hired investment bankers and then lawyers when it became clear they were facing losses of 90 percent or more.

Dubai’s DP World has agreed to buy Drydocks World and a maritime business park in the emirate for $405m. Ports operator DP World, majority owned by government conglomerate Dubai World, agreed to buy Dubai World’s Drydocks World ship repair unit via a cash injection of $225m. DP World also said it would buy another Dubai World unit, Dubai Maritime City, for $180m. DP World said the Drydocks transaction, expected to close before the end of the first quarter of 2018, was contingent on a successful completion of Drydock’s restructuring process, the Financial Times reported.

Dana Gas PJSC bondholders, including BlackRock Inc. and Goldman Sachs Group Inc., submitted a proposal to the Middle Eastern energy producer to resolve a dispute over a $700 million sukuk that shocked the Islamic finance industry this year, Bloomberg News reported. A person close to the company said the terms aren’t acceptable. The deal, which has support from over 70 percent of sukukholders, includes a cash pay-down of $300 million at par and a dual-listing of the company’s shares on the London Stock Exchange, the ad hoc committee of bondholders said in a statement.

To see how far Dubai has come, take a look at its credit default swaps. The extra cost investors pay to insure the sheikhdom’s bonds versus those of its oil-rich neighbor, Abu Dhabi, has fallen below 60 basis points this month for the first time on record, Bloomberg News reported. That’s down from 555 basis points back in 2009, when Dubai’s government-related companies were in talks to restructure billions of dollars in debt and Abu Dhabi came to the emirate’s rescue with a bailout. Dubai is a rare example of a Gulf economy that doesn’t rely almost entirely on oil revenue to fund expansion.

Qatar is telling its banks to tap international investors to raise financing, instead of mainly relying on government funding, as the impact of the ongoing Saudi-led boycott puts pressure on liquidity, the Irish Times reported. The central bank is holding regular meetings with lenders to gauge how the standoff is affecting liquidity, and is encouraging banks to borrow internationally through bonds and loans to avoid further depletion of foreign reserves and credit-rating downgrades, said sources who asked not to be identified because the matter was private.