Central and Eastern Europe (CEE)

BNP Paribas has hired a senior EM credit trader to join its emerging markets trading desk.

Three more Turkish banks have come to the market to refinance loans from 2016, marking the second wave of refi deals to come out of the region this year.

Poland’s PKO Bank offered IG investors a healthy pick-up to the Polish sovereign curve with its new four year note on Tuesday.

Books were over €1.6bn for PKO Bank’s for year senior note on Tuesday. The deal is the first senior trade from the issuer since 2014.

British Columbia has hired Bank of China (BOC) for its second Panda deal, GlobalRMB has learned. Meanwhile, Hungary has chosen BOC and HSBC for a long-awaited Panda debut with a prospectus expected on Friday.

Shares in GetBack, the Polish debt collection company, closed just above their IPO price on Monday after the firm made its debut on the Warsaw Stock Exchange.

Turkey’s Odeabank will meet investors from Wednesday ahead of a possible sale of tier two notes. If the deal goes ahead, it would be the second such deal from a second tier Turkish bank this year, after Fibabanka's debut in May.

Poland’s PKO Bank has named leads for its first senior unsecured trade since 2014 after having focussed its funding efforts on the covered bond market for the last few years.

The Warsaw IPO of Play Communications, the Polish mobile telephone network operator, has been priced at Z36, above the bottom of the initial Z34 to Z44 range, and broadly in line with the valuation multiple of its listed peer, Polsat.

‘Business as usual’ was the tone this week in emerging markets, after last week’s losses were reversed and mandates began trickling through from across CEEMEA.

Gazprom printed a further Swiss franc bonds on Thursday. The deal was less reliant on Russian lenders to reach the Sfr500m ($517.9m) capped size than its previous two Swiss bonds, as Gazprom has developed a strong reputation among Swiss, and wider European, retail lenders.

The Polish subsidiary of Commerzbank, mBank, has published the base prospectus for its €3bn covered bond programme, suggesting it could be ready to start a marketing drive leading to its first euro-denominated publicly syndicated deal.