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Private placements are not unknown for CEE sovereigns, but this is the biggest for years
Market participants have highlighted drop in Uzbek bond volumes this year
Uzbek issuance has fallen to near zero after a busy few years
Bookbuilding slower than normal due to the restart of war between the US and Iran
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MegaFon has secured Rb15bn ($222m) in loans from Gazprombank, as Russia’s second largest phone company builds a financial war chest to become the country’s latest company to delist from the London Stock Exchange. -
Amid the chaos in Turkey, bankers are pitching bond buy-back opportunities to the country's beleaguered banks. Many argue that those in a position to take them up should be looked upon favourably by investors. The problem is, those investors might not even notice.
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Two rating agencies lowered Turkey’s credit rating on Friday evening, but the beleaguered nation’s asset prices have largely shrugged off the news, despite predictions of a recession.
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The sovereign credit crisis spurred lawmakers to undertake a number of major initiatives designed to sever the ‘doom loop’ — the link between sovereign and bank credit risk. Recent events in Italy and Turkey show the limits of these policies, but not their impotence.
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Emerging market currencies and bond yields were battered this week as old school contagion — the like of which has been absent for many years — infected the market as the Turkish lira crashed. But there is hope that a bounce back for many of these countries could be imminent, as it was after the 2013 taper tantrum. Francesca Young reports.
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Banks with major exposures to Turkey were getting hammered after a loss of financial market confidence pushed the country towards a crisis at the beginning of the week. But analysts suggest that any fears of contagion into the European banking sector are overdone.
