CEE Bonds
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Türk Telekom printed a $500m six year bond on Thursday at 7%, capping an extraordinary week in the CEEMEA bond markets. The company's outstanding paper had rallied following the release of initial price guidance for the bond, such was the demand for exposure to the credit. -
CPI Property Group, which owns real estate in Berlin and central and eastern Europe, has mandated four banks for a roadshow to market its first dollar bond.
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Middle East issuers are expected in the bond market in droves, with Egypt and Mashreqbank leading the charge this week.
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The Estonian Financial Services Authority this week ordered Danske Bank to leave the country. The Danish lender replied that it would exit the Baltics and Russia as a whole. Meanwhile, the Estonian regulator and its Danish counterpart are under investigation for a possible breach of European Union law in relation to Danske’s money laundering scandal.
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Russia may be back in the debt market again as soon as March, according to rumours among emerging markets syndicate bankers. However, the sovereign’s reception in the market is uncertain because of a renewed push for further sanctions in the US senate.
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Credit Bank of Moscow printed a €500m five year bond on Tuesday, taking advantage of positive sentiment towards Russian bonds that existed early in the week before new talk of fresh US sanctions on Russia later dented enthusiasm for the country’s credit.
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Uzbekistan opened a new chapter in emerging market bonds on Wednesday, printing a $1bn dual tranche deal. Market participants are expecting a swathe of other issuers from the country to follow the sovereign into the capital markets, although soggy trading on Thursday has stiffened investor resolve to hold firmer on pricing on subsequent Uzbek deals, writes Francesca Young.
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In the emerging markets over the past year the art of bond investing has often felt like perfecting the skill of mitigating disaster — of knowing when to catch a falling knife or jump on a rebound before everyone else does.
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Vakifbank has found competitive funding with a privately placed covered bond, its second of the year, sold via sole lead manager Credit Suisse, even though the publicly syndicated Turkish covered bond market has been closed for some time.
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Uzbekistan printed its $1bn dual tranche five and 10 year bond on Wednesday to great investor excitement, but the bubble was punctured on Thursday when both traded down in the secondary market. That was despite orders as big as $300m from one international EM account, according to Uzbekistan’s deputy prime minister and finance minister, Jamshid Kuchkarov.
