Central and Eastern Europe (CEE)
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Intesa Sanpaolo has objected to a report by a Russian news agency that it was "considering not syndicating" its €5.2bn loan to finance the acquisition of shares in Rosneft by Glencore and the Qatar Investment Authority. -
After a successful sale of €250m of seven year covered bonds in January, the Republic of Slovakia’s largest issuer, VUB, is now preparing for a 10 year sale, where it expects to issue €250m covered bonds in an auction on April 20.
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Croatia’s parliament passed an emergency law on Thursday to deal with the default crisis at Agrokor, the sprawling food and agriculture group that is the country's largest private company.
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Russian borrowers are wasting no time in dealing with $7.3bn of their corporate bonds about to come due.
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Many international banks have yet to hear from Intesa Sanpaolo, more than a month after it announced plans to syndicate its €5.2bn loan to Qatar Investment Authority and Glencore for the takeover of a 19.5% stake in Rosneft, the Russian oil company.
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Three more IPOs reached successful conclusions on Tuesday and Wednesday, including the largest in Poland for over two years.
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Norilsk Nickel printed a new six year bond 15bp inside its curve on Wednesday, but the volume of orders that dropped from the order book from the order book suggested that not all were happy with the pricing.
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Even as South Africa and Halkbank prove that idiosyncratic risks are ever present in in emerging market bonds, conditions remain beyond syndicate bankers wildest dreams. That is good news for the bulging pipeline.
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ONGC Videsh (OVL), the overseas investment arm of Indian state-owned ONGC, has selected three banks for a $500m term loan to replace a bridge from last year. The oil firm is also raising funds in yen, and has picked two Japanese lenders for the financing, said a source.
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Turkish bank refinancing activity has ramped up, with Ziraat Bank signing its $1bn syndicated loan on Monday after Yapi Kredi sent out a request for proposals (RFP) at the end of last week.
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Russian borrowers are wasting no time in dealing with the $7.29bn of corporate bonds about to come due. After a record $2.8bn poured into the asset class last week, it is easy to see why borrowers view this as the time to tap the market.
