GLOBALCAPITAL INTERNATIONAL LIMITED, a company

incorporated in England and Wales (company number 15236213),

having its registered office at 4 Bouverie Street, London, UK, EC4Y 8AX

Accessibility | Terms of Use | Privacy Policy | Modern Slavery Statement | Event Participant Terms & Conditions

Russia

  • CEE
    Polyus Gold, the largest gold producer in Russia, has picked three local banks and one international firm to arrange investor meetings for a dollar bond.
  • CEE
    Russia plans to raise $7bn in the international markets next year and is working towards a radical overhaul of its capital markets to decrease pressure on the country’s strained banks, Sergei Storchak, deputy minister of finance, told GlobalCapital's sister publication Global Markets.
  • The vice-president of the New Development Bank, Paulo Nogueira Batista Junior, tells GlobalMarkets how his institution is lending on projects and issuing green bonds in line with the increasing concern with environmental issues
  • EuroChem tightened pricing for its $500m bond by 45bp in what the issuer described as the lowest ever dollar coupon for a non-investment grade Russian borrower.
  • Russia’s Promsvyazbank is preparing a roadshow for a dollar bond of three or 3.5 years, following Otkritie Bank’s trade earlier this week.
  • CEE
    Otkritie Bank returned to the international bond market for the first time since the start of the Russia crisis on Tuesday, surprising market watchers with its tactics with no explanation offered.
  • After a slow start to the week, emerging market investors were offered a smorgasbord of options as borrowers from four continents and across the credit spectrum launched bonds in dollars and euros.
  • Attitudes towards Russian credits have miraculously softened this year and the friendly new outlook has even filtered to the loan market, as last week Norilsk Nickel signed the first sizeable unsecured dollar loan since the EU and US imposed their sanctions. But loans bankers would do well to remember what drove them away from Russian deals in the first place.
  • Russia’s Norilsk Nickel has signed a $500m new money loan from five lenders, a deal which could set a precedent for Russian companies borrowing in the shadow of financial sanctions. However, tough operating conditions remain for the firm.
  • CEE
    Otkritie Bank took advantage of surging demand for Russian hard currency bonds on Tuesday to come to market with a long awaited dollar Reg S senior unsecured deal.
  • CEE
    Russian Railways successfully revived the Eurorouble format on Friday with a well received seven year deal.
  • In a first for the Russian loan market since EU and US sanctions were imposed on the country, a borrower has agreed an unsecured dollar loan. Norilsk Nickel has signed a $500m deal from five lenders.