Raiffeisen Bank International AG
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The Republic of Belarus has printed its $600m 12 year bond through its curve despite other emerging market sovereigns paying up for their bonds over the past fortnight. -
The Republic of Belarus has released initial price thoughts for a $600m 12 year bond after the country’s last deal, printed in June 2017, climbed 11 points since pricing.
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The Republic of Belarus, which issued one of the best performing bonds of 2017, is looking to return with a 10 year dollar benchmark.
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Two Russian issuers forged ahead with plans to issue Eurobonds this week, despite increasing noise around Russian sanctions that threaten to push spreads wider.
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Nordic high yield bond bankers are making a play to attract more borrowers from elsewhere in Europe, promising them access to local investors familiar with mid-cap borrowers and small deal sizes. This week, SecureLink, a Belgian software security company, listed its first bond on the Oslo Stock Exchange.
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Subordinated bond deals from European financial institutions have zoomed tighter in secondary market trading this week, in anticipation of lower supply and ahead of the reporting period for full year earnings for 2017.
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The Republic of Belarus is considering reopening its $600m 7.625% 2027s, according to a source with knowledge of the matter, after a strong rally that has made them the best performing hard currency bonds in CEEMEA in the last six months.
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Only a single issuer came to market in euros on Thursday. In what a banker away from the deal referred to as “good traffic control”, Austria had the market to itself for a €4bn 10 year.
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Raiffeisen Bank International’s additional tier one (AT1) bond — the first in the asset class this year — met a wall of demand and was priced with a coupon that was tighter than all but one euro AT1. This was in the face of investors’ preference for bonds offering a higher reset spread, increasing the chance of bonds being called.
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Raiffeisen Bank International announced a mandate for the first additional tier one (AT1) issue of the year, giving investors a chance to dive back into an asset class which saw exceptional returns last year. Crédit Agricole Assurances also announced a mandate for a tier two bond.
