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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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Life returned to emerging European debt new issue markets this week with sovereign deals and the year’s first corporate new issues from the region. Other borrowers are lining up to follow these breakthroughs, according to banks and investors.
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Romania this week mandated Deutsche Bank, HSBC and EFG Eurobank to arrange a benchmark-sized Eurobond, but the fees the sovereign is paying on the deal have attracted unusually harsh criticism from some corners of the market.
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In the midst of the global financial crisis, officials at the National Bank of Azerbaijan are making time to review a draft covered bond law for the South Caucasian country, in a sign of their commitment to a project that is aimed at stimulating its mortgage market.
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The flight from Russian assets gathered pace this week even as the queue of borrowers from the country hoping to issue in international debt and equity markets grew yet longer.
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International investors’ flight from Russian assets continued this week, causing steep declines in stock markets and the rouble. Added to the climate of volatility in emerging market debts, the prospects for Russia’s bond backlog look grim.
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Reduced bank funding options, a growing reliance on retail deposits, and a frozen secondary real estate market. Sound familiar? No, it’s not the US, but Kazakhstan. But while covered bonds are coming to the fore in the States and being taken up in CIS countries such as the Ukraine, the market’s direction in Kazakhstan is less clear.