Poland
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Investors are growing increasingly excited about the IPO of Allegro, the Polish e-commerce platform, and the sources working on the deal are hoping to use this momentum to launch the deal early in the autumn. -
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Europe’s equity capital markets bankers are preparing for a busy autumn of IPOs and have been meeting with investors to secure early support for these deals. Bankers are hoping the new deals retain some of the features of successful listings in the first half of the year.
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Poland has become the first CEEMEA country outside the eurozone to sell a bond with a negative yield since the onset of the coronavirus pandemic.
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Ukraine was set to issue a highly anticipated bond on Wednesday, having started pricing with what some experts called "impressive" initial price thoughts. The deal follows one from Poland, which secured three year money at a negative yield in euros on Tuesday.
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Assicurazioni Generali and Uniqa Insurance are each looking at selling tier two capital from their green bond frameworks, using a quieter period in the new issue markets to explore more complicated and multi-faceted transactions.
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The Republic of Poland on Tuesday launched a three year euro bond, while Ukraine mandated banks for a 12 year dollar benchmark. Though bankers say the window is finally open for emerging market corporate issuance, there remains robust appetite for govvie debt.
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The coming months are crucial in determining how ambitious the European Union will be in decarbonising its economy to fight climate change over the next decade.
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Spain’s Ferrovial has sold a Z255m ($65m) chunk of its majority stake in Budimex, the Polish infrastructure construction company, via an accelerated bookbuild.
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Poland’s mBank has announced a tender offer for a maximum of €400m of its bonds, as it seeks to manage its MREL requirements.
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A Pln700m ($168.9m) selldown of stock in Play Communications, the Polish telecommunications company, has shown that investor appetite towards some emerging market stocks is still alive, despite the asset class being hit hard during the Covid-19 pandemic.
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The Republic of Poland has printed €1.5bn 0% 2025s on Monday, selling the deal at 100.512 to give the first ever negative yield in euros — minus 0.102% — from any global EM issuer.
