Central and Eastern Europe (CEE)
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The Shenzhen Stock Exchange (SZSE) wants Panda bond issuers to raise RMB funding in Shenzhen for Belt and Road projects, the governments of Guangdong, Hong Kong and Macau plan new scheme to allow greater use of renminbi in the region, and the Moscow branch of Industrial and Commercial Bank of China (ICBC) becomes an interbank FX lending member. -
PKO Bank Polski issued in Swiss francs for the first time in five years this week amid an improving basis swap out of the currency that is opening up a window for deals.
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Kernel, the Ukrainian grain and sunflower producer, has signed a $200m syndicated loan to refinance a $300m facility from last year, with a longer three year tenor.
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Belarusian food retailer Eurotorg’s $350m new issue traded up in the secondary market on Thursday morning, demonstrating the high appetite for rare corporate bonds from emerging markets.
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Belarusian food retailer Eurotorg tightened price guidance on Wednesday for a $300m-$350m bond to 9.125%-9.25%. Syndicate officials away from the deal said that level was much wider than they expected for the note but a lead manager has launched a staunch defence of pricing.
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Development finance institutions the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) and International Finance Corp have lent €215m to Vetroelektrane Balkana (WEBG) to develop Čibuk 1, the largest wind farm in Serbia and the western Balkans.
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Digi Communications’ Hungarian subsidiary signed a €200m bridge loan on Friday to finance its acquisition of compatriot communications company Invitel Tavkozlesi, a subsidiary of Invitel group. The lead banks have launched the syndication and held a bank meeting on Tuesday.
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Footasylum, the UK sports shoe retailer, plans to float on London’s Alternative Investment Market next month, it said in an intention to float document on Monday.
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Turkey’s fourth largest private bank Yapi Kredi signed a $1.36bn syndicated loan with 37 banks on Monday.
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Economic growth in Central Asia is picking up but experts at the IMF are concerned that leaders are not doing enough to address fiscal deficits
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This article is the fourth and final part of a series on China’s Belt and Road Initiative that we are publishing during the 2017 IMF-World Bank annual meetings in Washington DC. We have devoted two articles to the Road element, and two to the Belt element, of which this piece is the second and focuses on the western part of the overland route
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