Central and Eastern Europe (CEE)
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State-owned Bulgarian Energy Holding will meet investors next week for its first Eurobond for three years. BEH has mandated JP Morgan and Banca Imi to arrange the meetings, which run from July 18-22. -
Two block trades by UniCredit this week, totalling €1.08bn, offered further confirmation that the equity capital market is functioning well, and that there is ample demand for good European stocks, including from US long-only investors.
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UniCredit’s new CEO, Jean-Pierre Mustier, has sent strong signals to the market this week that he will be determined about reshaping the bank, which by last week had lost 75% of its market value in the past year.
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Croatia’s Zagrebački Holding completed a buy-back of nearly half of its outstanding Eurobonds on Thursday.
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Macedonia was on track to price the first euro-denominated bond from CEEMEA since the UK referendum on June 23 on Thursday morning.
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UniCredit used similar tactics on its accelerated bookbuild sale of 10% of Bank Pekao on Tuesday night to those it had used for Monday’s sale of FinecoBank — and achieved a similar result: multiple times oversubscription, led by one very large anchor order.
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Bank of Georgia is targeting a seven year bond, with the roadshow for the deal finishing on Wednesday.
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Russia's State Transport Leasing Company (STLC) printed the first new Russian quasi-sovereign paper for six years on Tuesday, taking advantage of the recent rally in Russia debt to draw a $2.5bn book for a $500m five year deal.
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UniCredit has dominated the headlines again this week, but this time for a better reason. Italy’s largest bank has also been its biggest loser of shareholder value, its shares falling 75% since last summer, as investors have lost trust in the sector.
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New deals from Turkey’s Yapi Kredi, Majid Al Futtaim, and Russia’s State Transport Leasing Company this week prove that CEEMEA has finally shaken off any Brexit-related concerns and is now revelling in its apparent ‘safe haven’ status.
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A day after selling 10% of its Italian online retail investment service Fineco Bank for €328m, UniCredit has this evening launched an accelerated bookbuild of 10% of Bank Pekao, the Polish bank of which it owns 50.3%.
