Central and Eastern Europe (CEE)

Georgia Capital, the investment arm of Bank of Georgia Group (BGEO), had the sole attention of EM investors on Monday when it printed its new deal 70bp-75bp wider than Bank of Georgia.

Russian Copper Company has signed a $250m loan with a club of banks to refinance a previous facility.

Georgia Capital, the investment arm of Bank of Georgia Group (BGEO), had the sole attention of EM investors on Monday with a new six year note.

Turkcell, Turkey’s leading mobile phone operator, is preparing the ground for issuing a new Eurobond, and has applied to the country’s capital markets board for approval.

Garanti Bank and Vakifbank have joined the spring round of loan refinancings by Turkish banks.

Yapi Kredi has privately placed Turkish mortgage backed covered bonds to the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) and Clean Technology Fund (CTF) to promote energy saving improvements in the financial sector.

Slovenia printed €1.25bn by way of a triple tranche euro bond tap on Wednesday from a book of €4bn, paying small new issue premiums. Marjan Divjak, director general in Slovenia’s Ministry of Finance, said that the country is “more or less done” in the international bond markets for the year.

Books for the Republic of Slovenia’s triple tranche euro bond tap were in excess of €3.6bn by lunchtime on Wednesday, with final spreads having been set for each clip. The deal is part of a liability management exercise that swaps out short dated dollar debt for longer euro denominated paper.

Gazprom made its sixth appearance in the Swiss franc bond market on Wednesday, but for only the first time as an investment grade credit after S&P upgraded its rating. Institutional investors, which only buy bonds that are eligible for the Swiss Bond Index, piled into the transaction, pushing pricing down and the size up.

Emerging market bonds have been buoyed by several positives in key markets this week including a cabinet reshuffle in South Africa that has seen the return of respected former finance minister Nhlanhla Nene, and the upgrade of Russia to investment grade by S&P.

Ukraine’s DTEK is meeting fixed income investors this week to update investors. The borrower is in the process of restructuring some outstanding bank loans.

The State Export-Import Bank of Ukraine printed its local currency bond on Tuesday, but needed to pay an eye-watering 16.5% coupon to do so.