CEE Bonds

Czech company Atrium European Real Estate has hit the market with a deal first roadshowed in June, raising €300m with a seven year.

There was little in the way of emerging market bond issuance this week to set the tone for the usually busy month of September. Although mBank raised €500m of four year money, CEE-focused Atrium European Real Estate had yet to appear with a deal that had been planned for Thursday.

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Czech company Atrium European Real Estate has said it is focusing on a seven year bond. That is the long end of the maturity range that had set for the note on Wednesday. But there are no signs yet of price guidance for the deal, which has already been postponed once.

mBank, a Polish financial institution, has hit the market with what will be the first euro benchmark from a CEEMEA borrower in over a month, taking what some investors believe is a cautious approach to reopening the market.

Czech company Atrium European Real Estate is reviving its €300m bond issue this week with a shorter maturity, having roadshowed in June. The deal looks set to be one of the first out of the gates in the emerging markets this week, after a tumultuous summer for that asset class.

Emerging market borrowers and investors are returning from the summer break slowly but surely this week, but caution is still the prevailing tone.

Ukraine sold what Dealogic indicates is its largest international bond in almost a year last week, printing a $725m private placement (PP), easing the country’s cashflow concerns ahead of the expected autumn tranche of International Monetary Fund (IMF) money.

Kirill Dikijs, formerly of BNP Paribas, has started in his new emerging markets DCM role.

It has been a dreadful August in emerging markets, but borrowers still have cash to raise and, despite the violent swings in secondary market levels, investors will have cash to put to work when the UK bank holiday has passed.

Polish bank mBank is embarking on a roadshow to market the first euro denominated international public bond from the CEEMEA region in over a month, and the first since Turkey’s currency crisis triggered a wave of selling across emerging market debt.

Sberbank is merging its corporate banking and Sberbank CIB divisions and plans to complete the integration by the end of 2018, with deputy chairman Anatoly Popov heading the combined entity.