Central and Eastern Europe (CEE)
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Puma Energy made a strong start for non-financial corporate issuers on Monday, making full use of investor familiarity with the credit — and some excess cash — to make its $750m market return.
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PhosAgro, a Russian phosphate-based fertiliser company, is embarking on a series of investor meetings to market a five to seven year dollar bond.
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The Turkish sovereign has mandated three banks for its usual start of year dollar bond while Turkiye Sinai Kalkinma Bankasi released guidance for its note. But the latter drew criticism for going head to head with its sovereign.
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The equity block trades market in EMEA opened the week on Monday night with a TL496m ($132m) sale of stock in Mavi Jeans, the Turkish jeans maker that floated in Istanbul last year. The trade was covered inside an hour.
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MLP Sağlık Hizmetler, also known as MLP Care, the largest private healthcare provider in Turkey, has begun investor education for its flotation on Borsa Istanbul, in which it hopes to raise about TL500m ($133m) of primary proceeds.
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Two corporate issuers are making early moves into the capital markets this year without waiting for sovereign issuers to establish benchmarks, showing the strength of funding conditions in emerging market debt, said bankers.
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Petkim Petrokimya Holdings, the largest petrochemical company in Turkey, has received approvals to issue an international bond of up to $500m.
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Republic of Macedonia has named three banks to arrange investor meetings for a combined buyback and new euro-denominated bond as the Southeast European sovereign looks to extend its maturity profile.
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The People’s Bank of China announces new rules to promote cross-border RMB transactions, HSBC plans to launch a new service in Poland to capture business opportunities related to the Belt and Road Initiative, and Agricultural Bank of China obtained approvals for new branches in Southeast Asia.
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As the first trades of the new year hit the screen this week, one new line stuck out in the deal announcements — a specification that the target market for the issue would only be eligible counterparties and professional clients, a piece of boilerplate to comply with the new MiFID II rules.
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