Russia

The IPO of EN+ Group, the Russian power and metals company controlled by Oleg Deripaska, has got covered at its base size, on the penultimate day of the bookbuild.

After weeks of risk-on behaviour, a cautious mood has gripped Europe’s equity capital markets after several of this season’s biggest IPOs traded badly in the aftermarket.

On Monday night, Dmitry Grishin, the Russian entrepreneur, sold a chunk of his stake in Mail.ru Group, the internet services company he co-founded, via an accelerated bookbuild led by Goldman Sachs on the back of reverse enquiries from investors.

Two new Russian commodity deals are in the market, following a flurry of pre-export finance (PXF) facilities earlier in the year. Unsecured formats are proving more popular, while even PXFs are less secure than they used to be.

The $1.5bn flotation of EN+, the aluminium and power company controlled by Russian oligarch Oleg Deripaska, in London and Moscow is coming during a hot time for the aluminium market and will help to seal a partnership between Russian producer Rusal and Glencore.

Russian steel company TMK has launched a consent solicitation for its $500m 6.75% 2020s with the purpose of removing IPSCO Tubulars, its US based subsidiary, as a guarantor on the notes. An investor in London said that he expects bondholders to agree to the changes.

The German, Austrian and Italian export credit agencies all agreed at VTB’s Russia Calling Forum in Moscow on Wednesday that Russia was one of their preferred destinations for financing projects, and heads of several Western companies said they had appetite for ECA-backed investment there.

Russian lender Credit Bank of Moscow (CBM) raised Rb14.4bn ($250m) of fresh equity with a 13.4% capital increase this week.

Russian gold miner Petropavlovsk has mandated four banks for its debut in the international bond markets, a dollar benchmark.

ABH Financial, the holding company of Russian issuer Alfa Bank, returned to the Swiss franc market on Tuesday, with a refinancing of a Sfr85m ($85.6m) January 2018 that almost doubled the size of the original issue. The transaction came just days after Russian investment company 01 Properties pulled a debut deal after finding insufficient support for a four year bond.

En+ Group, the Russian power and metals company controlled by Oleg Deripaska, has opened the books for its $1.5bn IPO in London and Moscow, which may value it at up to $8.5bn if the deal is priced at the top of its price range.

The Shenzhen Stock Exchange (SZSE) wants Panda bond issuers to raise RMB funding in Shenzhen for Belt and Road projects, the governments of Guangdong, Hong Kong and Macau plan new scheme to allow greater use of renminbi in the region, and the Moscow branch of Industrial and Commercial Bank of China (ICBC) becomes an interbank FX lending member.