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Takeover will increase the Hungarian bank's total assets by around 13%
Issuer has the country's longest tier two curve
The sovereign has finished international funding for 2026
Private placements are not unknown for CEE sovereigns, but this is the biggest for years
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The story begins in 1989, when Poland as the first country in the central and eastern European (CEE) regained its independence… with the benefit of inventory. The country — and in particular the economy — was, putting it mildly, a mess. But we all knew where we wanted to be in the future. And step by step we worked very hard to achieve our goals. Now, it almost seems unbelievable how the situation has changed.
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Poland was alone among the major European economies in avoiding a recession during the global financial crisis. But could the recent political turmoil in Crimea knock Poland off balance just as it looks to surf the economic wave of recovery in western Europe? Philip Moore reports.
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In this interview with GlobalCapital’s Francesca Young, Wojciech Kowalczyk, Poland’s deputy minister of finance, shares his views on the outlook for Poland’s economy, the likely impact of the Ukraine crisis and a recovery in the eurozone and how he sees recent controversial reforms of its pension fund system.
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Poland is widely regarded as one of the most sophisticated bond issuers of central and eastern Europe, but this status is being challenged by the Ukraine crisis and a potential loss of investor attention as western Europe begins to roar again. Francesca Young reports.
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Today Poland is standing tall. It survived the recent global financial crisis relatively unscathed in large part a result of the measures the country’s Ministry of Finance had put in place in previous years. Now with an established domestic market that aids international access Poland is competing with developed countries on the global stage. GlobalCapital’s roundtable, held in Warsaw in April, brought together Poland’s Ministry of Finance and selected primary dealers to ask what is being done to enhance, and what can be expected from, the country’s bond market and could a ratings upgrade be on the cards?
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Paweł Tamborski has been one of the key architects of Poland’s capital markets in the past 20 years. From 1991 to 2012 he worked in the financial services industry, most recently as co-head of capital markets at UniCredit CAIB Securities in London and then as head of investment banking at Wood & Company. Since January 2012, Tamborski has served as undersecretary of state at the Ministry of Treasury in Warsaw, where his responsibilities include overseeing the privatisation process and co-ordinating with foreign and domestic partners to promote Polish capital markets around the world. GlobalCapital’s Philip Moore asks him for an update on the privatisation programme and the development of Warsaw as a financial centre.