CEE Bonds
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Russia’s State Transport Leasing Co, also known as GTLK, printed a $550m Reg S bond on Wednesday from a book of more than $1.3bn, with a surprisingly high proportion of US offshore demand. -
Montenegro came to market on Thursday for its first ever 10 year bond. Demand for the euro deal proved strong enough for the issuer to raise €500m and allowed the leads to set the yield roughly flat to fair value.
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Kazakhstan printed a €1.15bn dual tranche bond on Wednesday from a book of more than €3bn at its peak, at levels that lead managers said were 6bp inside the curve for the seven year and 4bp inside for the 15 year. Bankers away from the deal saw fair value differently but conceded that there could be different views on the calculation.
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The Republic of Kazakhstan has impressively tightened initial price thoughts for a euro dual tranche seven and 15 year bond, but rivals are saying that the issuer started very wide. Bankers on the deal disagree.
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Nordgold, a gold mining company with assets in Russia, Kazakhstan, Burkina Faso, Guinea and Canada, has mandated banks for its first bond in more than six years.
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Hypo Noe and Prima banka Slovensko competed for investors’ attention with similar sized covered bonds in the same seven year tenor on Tuesday. The Austrian transaction was priced with barely any concession and the higher rated Slovakian transaction was the first debut deal to price with a negative yield and the first from Central and Eastern Europe with a negative yield.
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The Black Sea Trade and Development Bank is set to spark a flurry of regional bank issuance in the Azerbaijani debt markets, as it plans to tap manat investors. Meanwhile, more of Azerbaijan's borrowers are looking in the opposite direction, as they seek to diversify their funding outside of the domestic market.
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Russia’s State Transport Leasing Co (STLC or GTLK), will start a roadshow on Monday to market a six or seven year dollar benchmark in the first time a fully state-owned company has tried to tap the bond markets since the most recent round of US sanctions against the Russian sovereign in early August. Investors have mixed views as to the response it will receive.
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The Republic of Kazakhstan and the State of Montenegro have mandated for the first euro bonds from the CEEMEA region since the market re-opened in September.
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Armenia is in the market for its first sovereign Eurobond in four years, hitting screens with a 10 year $500m no-grow.
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Russia’s State Transport Leasing Company (STLC), is planning to add to the spree of new bonds from Russia, hitting the road to market a six or seven year dollar benchmark. The deal will be the first time a fully state-owned company has tried to tap the bond markets since the most recent round of US sanctions against the Russian sovereign in early August.
