Central and Eastern Europe (CEE)

Turkish food giant Yıldız Holding has restructured the equivalent of $1bn in short term loans into one long term syndicated loan, as part of its efforts to facilitate its growth plans for this year.

Russian investment bank Renaissance Capital on Monday revealed that it had set up an algorithmic trading unit to take advantage of volatility in financial markets.

Credit Bank of Moscow and Domodedovo Airport (DME) brought the total Eurobond tally of Russian issuers this year to seven this week. Those latest two issuers jumped in shortly after Directive 1 sanction fears were quashed by the US Treasury.

RusHydro, the Russian hydroelectric power generator, issued the first local currency Eurobond of 2018 with a three year note on Thursday. Bond bankers said that internationally cleared local currency bonds would gain increasing traction this year.

Moldovan agro-industrial holding company Trans-Oil Group is looking to make its capital markets debut. The deal will be the first ever from a Moldovan corporate — and with no outstanding bonds from the sovereign, investors will have a lot of price work to do.

Moldovan agro-industrial holding company Trans-Oil Group is looking to make its capital markets debut. The deal will be the first ever from a Moldovan corporate, and the first chance investors have had to buy Moldovan risk since 1997.

Credit Bank of Moscow printed a $500m five year bond from a book in excess of $1.1bn on Wednesday, quelling fears of EM new issues shutting down in face of US Treasury yield rises. Domodedovo Airport looks next to print in dollars from the country while the State Transport Leasing Company has also mandated for a bond.

RusHydro, the Russian hydroelectric power generator, kicked off local currency Eurobonds for 2018 with a three year note on Thursday. DCM bankers said that internationally cleared local currency bonds will gain increasing traction this year.

Rival bankers are keenly watching Credit Bank of Moscow’s trade as a barometer for the market this week. A sell-off in US Treasuries seemed to imply a higher borrowing cost for the issuer, though with price revisions to come, it is too early to say by how much.

MLP Care, the Turkish company that owns the Medical Park chain of private hospitals, priced its IPO on Tuesday after extending the bookbuild and slashing the price range.

Digi Communications’ Hungarian subsidiary has refinanced part of a €200m bridge loan provided by Citigroup and ING in October last year, which was used to fund the acquisition of a subsidiary of fellow Hungarian communications company Invitel.

The Institute of International Finance (IIF) on Monday reported $4bn of outflows from emerging market bond funds since January 30, but even in the face of a global equity sell-off, the asset class has been largely resilient — for now.