Poland

UniCredit used similar tactics on its accelerated bookbuild sale of 10% of Bank Pekao on Tuesday night to those it had used for Monday’s sale of FinecoBank — and achieved a similar result: multiple times oversubscription, led by one very large anchor order.

UniCredit has dominated the headlines again this week, but this time for a better reason. Italy’s largest bank has also been its biggest loser of shareholder value, its shares falling 75% since last summer, as investors have lost trust in the sector.

A day after selling 10% of its Italian online retail investment service Fineco Bank for €328m, UniCredit has this evening launched an accelerated bookbuild of 10% of Bank Pekao, the Polish bank of which it owns 50.3%.

Emerging market bankers said on Monday that they are optimistic that developing market credit will hold firm as Britain forges ahead into the “world of the unknown” after voting to leave the EU on June 23. But the verdict on primary markets was unanimous: closed for the foreseeable.

Emerging market bankers called Britain’s decision to leave the EU on Friday "madness" and in line with the broader global market, EM credit has lost all the gains it made last week.

Poland is looking to join the club of Panda bond issuers, having signed up Bank of China to lead its transaction. But the sovereign plans to swap the renminbi proceeds back into euros as it has little need for the Chinese currency.

PKO Bank Hipoteczny, Poland’s largest mortgage lender, has issued a well oversubscribed, tightly priced and broadly distributed covered bond, which sets an encouraging prelude for an expected inaugural euro benchmark deal later this year.

Bank of China said on Tuesday that it has signed a memorandum with the Poland Ministry of Finance to work on the sovereign’s upcoming Panda bond.

The Panda bond market has been gaining plenty of attention ever since the asset class rebooted last year with many issuers eyeing it as a good opportunity to tap into the Chinese investor base. Looking to join the club is Poland, although the country has little need for renminbi and will be swapping the proceeds back into euros.

If the UK votes to leave the European Union on June 23, and a Brexit leads to fears the EU will fragment, EM bond markets will not escape the volatility that ensues in the immediate days after the referendum.

Polish chemicals firm Synthos has signed a €220m-equivalent credit facility ­with seven local and one international bank.

Central and Eastern European corporate issuers have been quietly benefitting from the game changing cash injection set to be unleashed by the European Central Bank on June 8, as ravenous yield hunters search further afield for value.