Poland
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Polish banks showed their deep pockets by signing a record Z12.5bn (€3bn) loan for television company Cyfrowy Polsat this week. But banks could face a tax which might reduce their capital by a third. -
Cyfrowy Polsat, the Polish television company, has signed a loan for Z12.5bn ($3.3bn) with 20 banks, which it claims is the largest ever corporate loan facility in zlotys.
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Polish state owned power company Polska Grupa Energetyczna (PGE) has picked banks for a benchmark euro transaction.
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Poland reopened the CEEMEA bond market this week after investors in search of safe havens pushed central Eastern European sovereign spreads tighter. Uncertainty over the timing of a US rate hike has left buyers wary of more typical EM names and left CEE sovereigns among the select few that could avoid paying heightened premiums.
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Bankers are pointing to sovereigns from central Eastern Europe as the best hope for CEEMEA supply although much of the region is bound by the uncertainty of when the US will start to raise rates.
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Poland made sure CEEMEA was not left out of the September restart rush on Wednesday, but more traditional emerging markets are likely to be left sidelined until after the US Federal Reserve decides to raise interest rates, said debt bankers.
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Rarely has confidence in equity markets been more savagely battered during August than this year. But hopes that issuance of new deals will be able to continue in the September-December season were raised on Tuesday by the launch of investor education for two IPOs.
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The Polish parliament’s new plan to solve the country’s Swiss franc mortgage problem could cost Polish banks $6.2bn this year, wiping out profits for 2015 and 2016, according to Institute of International Finance (IIF) research published this week.
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The Polish parliament’s new plan to solve the country’s Swiss franc mortgage problem could cost Polish banks $6.2bn this year, wiping out profits for 2015 and 2016, according to Institute of International Finance (IIF) research published this week.
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Oliver Koepke is leaving mBank this week and Karol Prażmo will take over the role of head of treasury for mBank Group.
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As an indirect beneficiary of the European Central Bank’s quantitative easing programme, Poland started 2015 with an extraordinary rally, culminating in the printing of a Swiss franc bond with a negative yield — the first ever for an emerging market borrower. More recently though, yields have backed up as the ECB rally has run out of steam.
