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African mobile payment provider prepares to list, seeking large valuation
Deep breath for market as more guidance, more mandates appear
Secondary market selling of private bonds may be wreaking havoc with the primary market for public debt but the trades were still the right thing to do

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  • CEE
    Ukraine set the terms on its €1bn seven year bond on Thursday afternoon, taking advantage of a huge bid for CEE euro sovereign deals this week and a rally in the country’s own debt since president Volodymyr Zelensky was elected at the end of April.
  • CEE
    A bevy of names from central and east Europe issued bonds this week and more are lining up amid a dramatic mood shift among investors.
  • Chinese automobile conglomerate Geely has used an exchangeable bond to monetise the volatility of its stake in AB Volvo, the Swedish maker of heavy-duty vehicles, to secure €400m of funding at a zero coupon.
  • Všeobecná úverová banka (VUB) has issued the first ever 10 year covered bond from Slovakia, thanks in large part to the high spread that ensured a 0.5% coupon — a return that investors demand — but one that is now out of reach for most European names in this tenor.
  • Chinese brokerage Huatai Securities this week will become the first company to list shares in London via the London-Shanghai Stock Connect programme. The deal, which is oversubscribed, is a landmark transaction and an important step for the internationalisation of China's capital markets.
  • Georgian TBC Bank printed its long-awaited $300m five year bond on Wednesday from a book of over $700m.