CEE Bonds
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Shares in Mol, the Hungarian oil and gas company, fell 3.4% early on Thursday morning but recovered to close flat, after Čez Group, the Czech electricity company, sold its whole 7.5% stake in Mol through an accelerated bookbuild, while buying back bonds it had issued that were exchangeable into Mol shares.
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Croatian retailer Agrokor’s debt hit distressed territory this week after rumours of hidden debt and a Moody’s downgrade spooked the buy-side. Clarity is unlikely until a forensic audit of the issuer is completed, say experts. -
Turkey’s six year sovereign sukuk was priced flat to its conventional curve for the first time following the asset class’s inclusion in the JP Morgan indices, even as the country’s president Recep Tayyip Erdoğan’s bid to consolidate power is an increasingly dominant talking point.
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Halkbank has hit back against claims of any wrongdoing following the arrest of its deputy CEO Mehmet Hakan Atilla, while on an investor roadshow on Monday. The bank denies any involvement in breach of US sanctions but its planned tier two bond remains on hold as the market awaits further clarity, writes Virginia Furness.
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Turkey’s six year sovereign sukuk is expected to be priced flat, or even inside, its conventional curve for the first time following the asset class's inclusion in the JP Morgan indices, even as the country's president Recep Tayyip Erdoğan’s bid to consolidate power grabs the headlines.
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Credit Bank of Moscow reopened the new style tier two market for Russian issuers in style on Wednesday with a $600m deal that was five times subscribed.
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Gazprom went for size with its sterling market return on Wednesday, pricing the second largest deal ever in the currency from an emerging markets borrower.
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Credit Bank of Moscow was on track to print its first Basel III compliant deal and had taken books of $1.7bn by Wednesday morning.
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Halkbank's planned Eurobond issuance is on hold after Mehmet Hakan Atilla, its deputy CEO, was detained following a roadshow in the US on charges of breaching sanctions against Iran, an investor relations person at the bank told GlobalCapital on Wednesday.
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Gazprom opened books on Wednesday morning on the first sterling-denominated bond from a Russian borrower since 2013.
