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  • Norilsk Nickel, the Russian nickel and palladium producer, is refinancing an existing $2.5bn facility. According to bankers, the new deal will have tighter margins than the original deal, which boasted the slimmest margins of any Russian syndicated loan in 2017. Some bankers are calling this the busiest January they have seen for years in the Russian market.
  • The World Bank made its first visit to the Rwandan franc market last week, place what Dealogic indicates is the first deal in the currency since 2015.
  • The Republic of Chile has mandated banks to arrange its second euro green bond offering, as well as launching a tender offer of outstanding euro debt.
  • A research paper published on Monday by the Bank for International Settlements sets out how grave the peril of climate change is. It asserts the necessity of central banks grasping this problem as central to their responsibilities — but also admits that they will be unable to “preserve financial stability in the age of climate change”.
  • Southern Eastern European telecoms group United Group, a BC Partners and KKR portfolio company, is preparing an all-bond financing package for its takeover of Bulgaria’s Vivacom, marketing new senior secured bonds and an add-on to its existing 2025 PIK notes.
  • Qatar Islamic Bank this week printed the Gulf region’s first Formosa sukuk, as issuers there stepped up their use of increasingly attractive Asian debt markets.