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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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Turkey’s central bank has had to fight hard to win respect as an institution independent of political pressure. With the country on firmer economic footing the central bank took its chance to cut rates — which will have delighted Turkey’s president. But the bank’s still shaky credibility and Turkey’s vulnerability to capital market vagary means there is more at stake.
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Philipp Heim and Christoph Ilgner have left debt capital markets positions at Erste Bank and moved to other firms.
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Azeri bankers are hoping that the country will have new Islamic finance legislation in place as early as the first quarter of this year. The new law would pave the way for International Bank of Azerbaijan (IBA) to launch a planned sukuk, which is likely to be backed by the bank's ijara portfolio, an IBA official told IFIS. -
Hedge funds have been trading the relative value between credit default swaps on Italian banks UniCredit and Intesa Sanpaolo as UniCredit’s spreads gap wider because of exposure to Russia and Ukraine. On Monday, five year subordinated CDS on UniCredit were trading at 296bp while Intesa Sanpaolo sub CDS traded at 195bp.
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Ukrainian corporate restructuring has resumed with Ferrexpo, a Ukrainian iron ore pellet exporter, which is looking to exchange its $500m notes due 2016. Analysts expect this to be the first of several such offers this year as political and economic uncertainty in the region continues.
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China is set to establish an offshore renminbi hub in Switzerland during a visit by prime minister Li Keqiang on January 20-21, according to domestic Chinese media reports. A Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) of official RMB clearing arrangements is expected, along with a Rmb50bn ($8.05bn) quota for the Renminbi Qualified Foreign Institutional Investors (RQFII) scheme.
