Lithuania
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The Republic of Lithuania on Tuesday drew a combined €1.27bn book for its taps as investors rushed to take a piece of what could be Lithuania’s last international bond for over a year. -
The Republic of Lithuania has launched a pair of euro taps on the same day that PSPP behemoth the European Financial Stability Facility headed to the market for bonds in very similar maturities.
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Lietuvos Energija group exceeded expectations to print a larger than expected €300m 10 year green bond on Friday. The deal is the first international green bond from a CEE corporate borrower.
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Lietuvos Energija UAB will begin marketing the first international corporate green bond from central and eastern Europe (CEE) on Thursday.
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Lithuania has hit the screens with its dual tranche euro note as markets stabilise after Brazil’s corruption scandal added to a US led sell-off.
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Just a day after EM bankers were predicting an endless summer of bond market bliss, came a US-led market wobble, which rival bankers said has caused leads to put the brakes on an expected trade from Lithuania.
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Legislators in the Czech Republic and Austria are in the process of updating their covered bond laws and Lithuania has set out its intention to introduce a framework.
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CEE borrowers were upbeat at Euromoney’s Central and Eastern European Forum 2017 in Vienna this week, with several sovereigns revealing funding plans for the year.
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DCM bankers will be hoping that central and eastern European issuers gathered in Vienna this week will have taken Slovenia’s Eurobond success as a sign that for CEE borrowers, the funding market is well and truly open once more.
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Lithuania plans to raise €1.75bn in the international markets this year, the last year to go "long in size", according to its deputy head of the state treasury, Gediminas Norkunas.
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The Republic of Lithuania made fools of market doubters on Thursday, slapping down a long end euro trade with its lowest spread in a decade and a bigger than expected size of €450m. The deal sets a strong tone for the three known CEE sovereigns in the pipeline.
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