Turkey
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Turkish lender Akbank is in the syndicated loan market with its debut ESG deal, according to sources. The bank has been able to tighten pricing on the refinancing, meaning that it has enough competitively priced funding for it not to need to come to the bond market. -
Rosatom, the Russian nuclear power company, is using a $300m sustainability-linked loan for part of the financing of Akkuyu, the first nuclear power plant to be built in Turkey — a sign of how fast and far the concept of sustainability-linked finance is spreading.
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Expectations of increased demand for emerging market local currency bonds are starting to wane, as the macroeconomic backdrop and interest rate volatility point to a stronger dollar in the short term.
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A sustained revival of confidence in Turkish markets has caused the lira and other metrics to improve in recent days. That, market participants said, has strengthened the country's standing in international debt markets to the point where it could consider a long dated new issue, though concerns around rising US rates are simmering away in the background.
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Top tier Turkish lender Akbank will launch a syndicated loan refinancing within weeks, according to sources. The borrower is likely to get tighter margins than for its last loan offering in October 2020.
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Türkiye Cumhuriyeti Ziraat Bankası is in the market with its first ever sustainability bond — a five year dollar benchmark.
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Emerging markets issuers across CEEMEA and Latin America once again triumphed in primary bond markets this week, with several sovereigns and corporates notching record low costs of funding. But there are signs that the direction of US rates is playing on investors’ minds, write Mariam Meskin and Oliver West.
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Turkey raised approximately a third of its total financing requirements for the year on Tuesday in a single bond issue. Though the deal included a new issue premium, market participants were impressed with the borrower's execution.
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Turkey and Bahrain took to primary markets to raise bond funding on Tuesday. But the appearance of two high yield credits has not driven unqualified enthusiasm for all borrowers in that asset class.
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Junk-rated emerging market sovereigns Benin and Oman sold bonds this week, with market participants saying their new issue premiums were minimal. However, bankers think total activity across CEEMEA over the last two weeks has been “underwhelming”.
