Most recent/Bond comments/Ad
Most recent/Bond comments/Ad
Most recent
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
More articles/Ad
More articles/Ad
More articles
-
UniCredit’s senior management team had to fend off a barrage of questions about the bank’s exposure to Turkish bank Yapi Kredi this week, as yields spiked on Turkish local currency debt and the lira slid further against the dollar. UniCredit’s equity stake is accounted at €2.5bn, but worth less than €1.2bn in today’s market.
-
A pair of US sanctions against Russia could have potentially disastrous consequences for local and international bond investors, especially if a planned ban against the purchase of new sovereign debt takes effect, writes Lewis McLellan. -
Emerging market sovereigns are regarded as stalwarts of the credit default swaps (CDS) market. Their liquidity is dependable, and participants can usually trade in large size with relatively low transaction costs and little price impact.
-
Global banks are, for the moment at least, standing by their Turkish clients despite deepening financial problems in the country. The yield on Turkey’s 10 year sovereign bond hit almost 20% this week, driven to this vertiginous height by diplomatic tensions with the US and an economy riddled with problems. Silas Brown and Lewis McLellan report.
-
Volkswagen (VW) took advantage of the positive tone in a quiet corporate bond market to build huge order books for both euro and sterling transactions on consecutive days. The strength of the bid from UK investors was behind the overall success of those transactions, while the borrower also found a pool of demand in Russian roubles.
-
Russian petrochemicals company Sibur is not close to making a decision on whether to go public, despite media reports in the last fortnight to the contrary, its CFO told GlobalCapital.
