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The Romanian economy is struggling to get out of recession
The syndication is among the Dutch development bank's largest in the region and attracted Middle East lenders
Takeover will increase the Hungarian bank's total assets by around 13%
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Turkey’s covered bond market is set to break away from SME-only issuance into mortgage transactions. Garanti Bank is planning a mortgage backed covered bond and several other issuers are keen to use the asset class to fund mortgage lending, said bankers.
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Peripheral eurozone sovereigns have had a flying start to 2013. But as the poorly received Italian general election and growing public rejection of austerity show, plenty of risks remain — and investors have yet to test the European Central Bank’s claim to do “whatever it takes” to save the currency bloc. Craig McGlashan reports.
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Russian steel pipe company TMK and Turkish household appliances company Arçelik have released price guidance for new bonds, and both expect to price the deals later on Monday. Emirates NBD and Saudi Electricity Co also have price talk out for new issues (see separate stories).
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Romania was set to price a bond at the upper limit of its size target and inside initial price guidance on Thursday afternoon. The deal will mark the second popular offering from a Central or Eastern European sovereign this week, coming two days after Hungary priced the biggest emerging markets global bond of the year so far.
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The Republic of Poland, which has already raised one third of its funding needs for the year, aims to be half done by the end of the first quarter, SSA Markets understands.
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Hungary has ended months of market speculation by mandating banks for a global roadshow without first securing a fresh financial assistance agreement with the IMF. The Hungarian debt management agency (AKK) announced on Monday that it had picked BNP Paribas, Citi, Deutsche Bank and Goldman Sachs to arrange investor meetings in Europe and the US “in the coming weeks”.