Poland

GetBack, the Polish debt collection company, has priced its Warsaw IPO at the bottom of the range, in a further sign of the variety of outcomes in the present flotation season.

Raiffeisen Bank Polska’s IPO on the Warsaw Stock Exchange, which kicked off on Thursday to raise up to Z947.8m (€224m), is expected to be a mainly local affair, said bankers close to the deal.

Polish utility company Tauron Polska Energia moved pricing 17bp on Wednesday to raise €500m with a 10 year note, despite a large sell-off in Bunds on Tuesday.

Strong support from IG accounts had enabled Polish utility company Tauron Polska Energia to tighten guidance to 165bp, plus or minus 2bp, for its windy but not green 10 year note on Tuesday morning.

The bookrunners on Polish debt collection agency GetBack’s Z1.1bn (€259m) IPO in Warsaw are marketing the deal at an eye-popping discount to its closest peer.

Raiffeisen Bank International (RBI) began gauging investor interest for the IPO of its Polish unit on Monday, via Citigroup and its own investment bank as leads.

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Medicover, the Swedish diagnostic services provider, on Tuesday joined the growing number of European companies seeking to go public before the summer, announcing its intention to float on Nasdaq Stockholm.

Poland’s largest covered bond issuer and national champion, PKO Bank Hipoteczny, has mandated leads to roadshow a prospective zloty-denominated covered bond benchmark.

Three more IPOs reached successful conclusions on Tuesday and Wednesday, including the largest in Poland for over two years.

Spearhead International, a central and eastern Europe based agriculture company, has signed its first syndicated loan for €167m.

Poland played a smart hand on Thursday to lock in €1.5bn of funding in the midst of a healthy risk-on market, but with risk events on the horizon, Poland’s deputy finance minister told GlobalCapital he was happy to be on the “safe side”.