Central and Eastern Europe (CEE)
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TBC Bank, Georgia's largest bank, is in the market for its first ever additional tier one bond, offering initial price thoughts of high 10% area. -
UniCredit AG issued its first dollar Pfandbrief on Tuesday, shortly after DekaBank had quickly wrapped up a sub-benchmark eight year. The two deals followed an inaugural sub-benchmark seven year from Slovakia’s Tatra banka that was priced on Monday.
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Investors gained confidence from the defeat of Turkey's ruling AK Party in the rerun of the Istanbul municipal elections on Sunday. Asset prices have rallied, improving conditions for Turkish borrowers.
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CTP, a commercial real estate developer based in Czech Republic, has signed a €1.9bn loan in one of the largest real estate packages to enter the syndicated loans market in central and eastern Europe ever.
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Russia saw more than $8bn of orders at peak demand for a tap of its 2029 and 2035 Eurobonds, with the sovereign getting such a rapturous response that it paid zero to negative new issue premiums.
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The Russian Federation was set to increase its 2029 and 2035 dollar bonds on Thursday evening as the risk of further US sanctions against the country recedes and the prospect of lower of US interest rates increases demand for the debt. A $7bn combined book had been built for the taps.
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Shares in Petropavlovsk, the London-listed Russian gold miner, rose 7.4% on Thursday after the company issued a new $125m convertible bond to refinance and older note due in 2020.
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The Russian Federation is to increase its its 2029 and 2035 dollar bonds as the risk of further US sanctions against the country recedes and the prospect of lower of US interest rates has increased demand for the debt.
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The Republic of Serbia’s first international bond for six years took advantage of a wave of bond buying, after European Central Bank President Mario Draghi’s comments earlier this week signalled a growing chance of eurozone rate cuts.
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A group of pre-IPO shareholders in Adyen, the Dutch payments company, have sold €311.8m of stock in response to reverse enquiries from investors. The Slovenian government also took advantage of the momentum in the blocks market to sell another 10% of NLB, the country’s largest bank.
