Central and Eastern Europe (CEE)
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Energy utility company EP Infrastructure (EPIF), part of the Energetický a průmyslový (EP) holding group, has refinanced a €1.75bn loan from last year with a €1.95bn facility with 15 banks making it the first Czech Republic corporate loan of 2017. -
After selling a green mortgage-backed covered bond to the International Financial Corporation and the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD), Garanti Bank expects to sell its first publicly syndicated euro benchmark.
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After selling $150m of green residential mortgage-backed covered bonds to the International Financial Corporation, Garanti Bank expects to sell another deal to the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development.
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BNP Paribas has hired a senior EM credit trader to join its emerging markets trading desk.
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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.
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Poland’s PKO Bank offered IG investors a healthy pick-up to the Polish sovereign curve with its new four year note on Tuesday.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
