Central and Eastern Europe (CEE)
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Risk appetite propelled CEEMEA into a bullish second quarter with nearly $16bn of bonds printed in Easter week. Saudi Arabia led the charge with a $9bn sukuk, but demand for duration played into the hands of KazMunayGas which raised $1.25bn of 30 year debt. -
A fresh IPO launch broke the quiet in the pre-Easter European equity capital market this week: and a very unusual one — the first Romanian flotation of the year. Digi Communications, a leading telecoms and media group, wants to float 25% of its equity in Bucharest.
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Stellar funding conditions in emerging markets enabled Romania to print 10 and 18 year debt at record low yields on Monday.
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Telenor, the Norwegian telecoms company, has sold a 4% stake in Veon, the Russian telco formerly called VimpelCom, for $262.5m through a block trade.
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The Croatian government has followed up on its new law, designed to handle Agrokor’s debt crisis, by appointing an “emergency management commissioner” and overriding plans for the restructuring drawn up by creditors.
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Romania was offering a 20bp new issue premium for both a new 10 year euro bond and a re-opening of its existing 2035s on Monday morning, according to a lead banker.
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Representatives from Russia’s Ministry of Finance met with several investment banks in London last week, as the sovereign sought to persuade them to work on its next bond deal.
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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.
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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.
