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Uzbekistan re-entered the international bond markets on Monday for its third ever issue. The dual currency bond it was marketing aimed at drawing in the widest possible investor base, market participants said
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The Republic of Uzbekistan is seeking to capitalise on a successful dual currency bond it sold just months ago, by returning to the bond market to sell a dollar and Uzbek som bond that also includes a sustainable element.
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Gazprom ended a three year absence from the Swiss franc market this week by attracting a large amount of retail participation in a Sfr600m ($653.4m) deal that launched at an attractive spread.
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Gazprom is set to access the Swiss franc market this week to sell its first trade in the currency for over three years.
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The city of Moscow is set to issue green bonds within the week, following the sovereign’s return to the Eurobond market on Thursday. The issuer is seeking foreign investor interest in its rouble-denominated green debut.
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Russia launched its first international bond of the year on Thursday, which some have labelled as a show of strength by the sanction-hit country. Market participants are now debating which investors will end up buying the trade.
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Russia has mandated an exclusively Russian consortium of banks to arrange a euro bond issue. Market participants say the extra cash is not necessary but is Russia’s way of demonstrating its access to markets a month after its sovereign debt was slapped with further US sanctions.
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Traxys, the Luxembourg-headquartered commodity trader, has signed a $1.33bn-equivalent revolving credit facility, adding lenders to its already hefty bank syndicate.
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Russian Railways issued a rouble bond on Thursday. Russian companies may steer away from the dollar market as discussions around fresh sanctions on Russia continue.
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Rusal, the Russian aluminium company, has arranged a 15 year syndicated loan from a consortium of local lenders. Funds will support the development of a smelting project in Siberia, which the company claims is environmentally friendly.
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Gazprom, the Russian state oil and gas company, this week sold a dollar bond amid growing concerns about US sanctions on the controversial Nord Stream 2 pipeline project, a wholly-owned subsidiary of Gazprom.
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Sovcombank, one of Russia's largest private banks, this week raised its debut social bond — still a rare format among emerging markets borrowers in the Europe, Middle East and Africa region. The bond follows an ESG loan the bank raised just weeks ago.
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Diversification has taken hold in central Asia's Uzbekistan, which over the last two years has started its pivot towards international capital markets. According to sources, a plethora of debut deals is expected to hit markets in coming months.
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The Republic of Uzbekistan, which debuted in international debt markets just last year, sold a dual currency bond this week, as foreign investors eyed up an Uzbek som tranche.
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The Russian Federation and the Republic of Hungary brought euro-denominated trades on Thursday, taking the opportunity to get funding done during good conditions in the run-up to the US Thanksgiving holiday, after which liquidity is expected to dry up.
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Norilsk Nickel, the Russian metal and mining company which has found itself under heightened scrutiny in recent months after a series of major oil spills, is set to raise a dollar denominated benchmark bond this week. Russian telecom major Veon was also in the market for its second rouble offering in recent months.
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Emerging market investors are anticipating a wave of corporate and FIG issuance from across the CEEMEA region, which they say will be welcomed with open arms. Russian petrochemical company Sibur is the latest such borrower looking to being a new bond, hosting investor calls on Monday.
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After a run of sovereign issuance, emerging market investors got their first taste of corporate paper since the Covid-19 coronavirus crisis struck bond markets.
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GTLK Europe, an air and sea vehicle lessor, has priced a seven year unsecured bond — its longest dated deal to date. It paid a premium to investors, but won praise for steering the transaction through a market that had recently been shuttered due to Covid-19 chaos.
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GTLK Europe, an aircraft and ship lessor, was offering a healthy new issue premium for a benchmark seven year bond in dollars on Tuesday, with the Covid-19 outbreak still casting a shadow over global financial markets.
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Gazprom returned to the Eurobond market for the first time in a year on Tuesday, pulling in $4bn of orders at one stage in the pricing process, despite the US sanctioning a Rosneft subsidiary.
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RusHydro will return to the international bond market for roubles with a deal that will likely take 2019’s total issuance in the format above last year’s total.
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Russia will issue renminbi government bonds by early 2020, said Russia deputy finance minister Alexey Moiseev on Thursday at the Moscow Exchange Forum in London. The move is a bid to widen access for Russian corporates eyeing renminbi debt, while diversifying funding sources away from the dollar.
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A pair of CEE corporates, Veon Holdings and NordGold, released initial price guidance for bonds on Tuesday, both offering paper after a break from international issuance.
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Russia’s State Transport Leasing Company (STLC), is planning to add to the spree of new bonds from Russia, hitting the road to market a six or seven year dollar benchmark. The deal will be the first time a fully state-owned company has tried to tap the bond markets since the most recent round of US sanctions against the Russian sovereign in early August.
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Russian petrochemicals firm Sibur was able to print $500m of five year paper in its return to the bond market this week, brushing off news of a drone attack on Saudi oil infrastructure and a subsequent 10% jump in the oil price.
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The blow to oil production in the Middle East seems to have boosted demand for Russian petrochemical giant Sibur's five year dollar benchmark on Monday — the issuer’s first bond in two years.
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Russian pipe manufacturer Chelyabinsk Pipe Plant on Thursday sold one of the tightest ever Russian debut bonds, according to a lead manager on the note.
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Lenders unconcerned as recession portents mount — Booking Holdings gets global group for revolver — Pemberton raises €3.2bn more for Europe’s mid-market — Eurotorg re-enters rouble debt market
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Belarusian food retailer Eurotorg has hit the Russian rouble-denominated debt capital markets for the second time this year, raising a Rb3.5bn ($52m) loan.