Central and Eastern Europe (CEE)
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Sponsored Société GénéraleAt this year’s Central & Eastern European Forum, Société Générale hosted the workshop titled ‘CEE central banks’ balance sheet expansion: a necessity or a risk?’. The speakers were Radoslaw Cholewinski (deputy head of fixed income at Pekao TFI), Martin Dolejs (portfolio manager, pension fund and insurance portfolios at Allianz), and Zoltan Aroksallasi (FX and rate strategist at Erste Bank), and I thank them for their insight, their knowledge, and their time. By Marek Drimal, EMEA Strategist, moderator of the workshop. -
The IPO of InPost, the Polish provider of postal lockers, soared on its first day of trading on Euronext Amsterdam.
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The Republic of Slovenia sold its longest ever bond issue on Wednesday, just three weeks after it sold a €2bn deal. The bid for duration was evident as investors piled in with more than €4bn of orders.
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Huuuge, the Polish social and mobile gambling company, has set a price range for its listing on the Warsaw stock exchange valuing it at up to $1.2bn.
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Richard Luddington has joined Rothschild as a senior advisor focusing mainly on sovereigns and quasi-sovereigns in central and eastern Europe as well as the broader Europe, the Middle East and Africa region.
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Türkiye Cumhuriyeti Ziraat Bankası is in the market with its first ever sustainability bond — a five year dollar benchmark.
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The Republic of Slovenia is set to sell its longest bond ever on Tuesday, picking banks for a 60 year euro benchmark — a 36 year extension of its curve.
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Deutsche Pfandbriefbank launched its first green bond this week, attracting twice as much demand as it needed for its €500m senior print.
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The IPO of InPost, the Polish provider of postal lockers, is due to be priced at €16, the top of the initial range, valuing the company at €8bn when it begins trading on the Amsterdam Stock Exchange later this week.
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Emerging markets issuers across CEEMEA and Latin America once again triumphed in primary bond markets this week, with several sovereigns and corporates notching record low costs of funding. But there are signs that the direction of US rates is playing on investors’ minds, write Mariam Meskin and Oliver West.
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