Central and Eastern Europe (CEE)
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Russia is on a roll with its fourth senior secured pre-export finance facility signed this month, the latest one being a $1.7bn deal for aluminium producer Rusal. -
Emerging Market Bond House of the Year
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Troubled Croatian supermarket group Agrokor, now under the control of a government-appointed commissioner, has filed an action in a Zagreb court to lift a clause in the employment contracts of its previous senior management that shields them from the costs of legal action against the company.
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Vakifbank took advantage of seemingly insatiable demand for Turkish bank paper to raise $500m of five year senior funding on Tuesday.
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Chinese loan banks are appearing in more and more emerging market loan deals this year, as they race towards the loan market big league, but while their hunger for market share is evident, they're still taking a conservative approach.
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Russia’s largest coal producer Siberian Coal Energy Company (Suek) has signed a five year $1bn pre-export finance facility, the third deal of its kind from the country this year.
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Vakifbank has opened books on a drive-by five year senior trade as Turkish financial supply trickles into the primary market.
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Nova Ljubljanska Banka, Slovenia's largest bank, has sold its entire 13.1% stake in Istrabenz, the conglomerate, ahead of NLB's long awaited reprivatisation, according to a regulatory filing on Monday.
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Lithuania has hit the screens with its dual tranche euro note as markets stabilise after Brazil’s corruption scandal added to a US led sell-off.
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Shares in Digi Communications, the recently listed Romanian telecoms and media group, closed below its IPO price on Thursday, after it confirmed on Wednesday that its CEO Serghei Bulgac had been included in a bribery and money laundering investigation that had already involved two senior executives and a former CEO.
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Just a day after EM bankers were predicting an endless summer of bond market bliss, came a US-led market wobble, which rival bankers said has caused leads to put the brakes on an expected trade from Lithuania.
