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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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Rosneft will repay $7.1bn on a bridge loan on Friday, as widely expected, the Russian state-owned oil company’s chief executive Igor Sechin told an oil market conference this week. -
The Republic of Bulgaria has said it is mandating Citigroup, HSBC, Société Générale and UniCredit as “arrangers and dealers” on its €8bn global medium term note programme, according to a release on the country’s Ministry of Finance website. The programme was signed on February 6.
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Despite the strong success of several emerging market issuers — Halkbank, National Bank of Abu Dhabi, and Eustream — with bonds last week, other borrowers have refrained from issuing so far this week, leaving the focus on liability management, mandates and roadshows.
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The plight of Raiffeisen Bank International has been horrifying and fascinating for the Central and Eastern European loan market over recent months and its disclosure of a big earnings hit will have been watched closely by other western banks with heavy exposure to Russia and Ukraine. But RBI’s problems are its own and do not – yet – suggest a crisis in the Russia business for other lenders.
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Severstal has bought back $221.4m of its 2016 and 2017 bonds after raising the buyback price last week. The Russian steel company had hoped to buy back up to $600m of the bonds.
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Raiffeisen Bank International has decided to reduce Russian business as well as sell its operations in Poland and Slovenia, along with its direct banking unit Zuno, in a bid to bolster its capital buffers.
