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  • Romania has sent out a request for proposal for a new benchmark bond with the deadline set for Thursday, according to an emerging market debt banker. Despite recent political volatility, the country’s strong fiscal fundamentals should help secure a solid response for its second deal of the year.
  • CEE sovereign issuers are standing firm this week, boldly pressing on with their bond issuance plans despite President Vladimir Putin's draft bill approving Russia's annexing of Crimea and the sanctions imposed on Russia by the US and the EU.
  • Banks have been fretting about Russian loans, both because it looks bad to lend to a country which has recently annexed part of another sovereign state, to widespread international condemnation, and because they don't want to be stuck with the risk if wider sanctions are imposed. They should band together to push Russian issuers towards their bond desks instead.
  • Senior loans bankers have called the bottom of pricing in the syndicated loan market. Some predict that political upheaval in Turkey and eastern Europe means margins and fees will begin rising again in the next quarter.
  • The bond market on Monday reacted calmly to a Crimean declaration of independence and its application to join Russia. Russia's bonds are still under pressure and CDS levels are still rising. But the primary CEEMEA market remains open, and Middle Eastern borrowers are among those planning deals, said EM debt bankers.
  • Russian telecoms company Mobile TeleSystems has signed an export credit agency-backed loan facility of up to $300m, as lenders await the fallout from the Crimean secession referendum on Sunday.