Slovenia

Slovenia is planning to tap its euro Reg S €1.25bn 2.125% 2025s and €1.5bn 2.25% 2032s to fund its dollar bond buy-back and has released price guidance for those notes.

Slovenia is planning to tap its euro Reg S 2.125% 2025s and 2.25% 2032s to fund its dollar bond buy-back.

After a week of no new paper in CEEMEA, EM bankers are looking forward to a busier next week as four bonds are slated from the region and the market looks supportive enough to allow issuers to pull the trigger.

Slovenia is offering a $750m buy-back across its dollar 2022s, 2023s and 2024s and is looking to fund it with proceeds from a new euro-denominated bond.

Slovenian Sovereign Holding, which manages state assets, has chosen Deutsche Bank as financial adviser for the privatisation of Nova Ljubljanska banka. It will probably be done as an IPO, possibly this year.

Telekom Slovenia, a firm downgraded four times in the last five years, has secured a €300m loan to refinance a bond, the move will strengthen its Ba2 rating according to Moody’s.

Holding Slovenske elektrarne (HSE), the largest power generation firm in Slovenia, has pulled its bond — a sign that European high yield is still cautious, despite increased bond sales in March.

The Republic of Slovenia printed a €1.5bn 16 year bond on Thursday from a book of €1.75bn and achieved its aim of building out the longer part of its curve.

Slovenia has firmed price guidance for a euro 16 year benchmark to 147bp over mid-swaps, a level that syndicate officials away from the deal said represents a double digit new issue premium.

Central and eastern European borrowers gathered in Vienna this week for Euromoney’s Central & Eastern Europe Conference and are not short of plans for the capital markets this year.

Slovenia is considering a buyback of its dollar bonds in order to reduce its exposure in the currency.

The Republic of Slovenia on Thursday ripped into the private placement market for the first time, fulfilling a desire at the ultra long end.