Slovenia
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Slovenia will brave volatile markets to privatise Nova Ljubljanska Banka (NLB), the country’s largest bank, before an end of year deadline set by the European Commission. -
The government of Slovenia has relaunched the reprivatisation of Nova Ljubljanska Banka (NLB), the biggest bank in the country, after an attempt to float it in 2017 failed.
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Slovenia printed €1.25bn by way of a triple tranche euro bond tap on Wednesday from a book of €4bn, paying small new issue premiums. Marjan Divjak, director general in Slovenia’s Ministry of Finance, said that the country is “more or less done” in the international bond markets for the year.
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Books for the Republic of Slovenia’s triple tranche euro bond tap were in excess of €3.6bn by lunchtime on Wednesday, with final spreads having been set for each clip. The deal is part of a liability management exercise that swaps out short dated dollar debt for longer euro denominated paper.
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The Republic of Slovenia is once again in the market with a liability management exercise that will enable it to tidy its debt structure by buying back up to $650m of its outstanding dollar bonds, as it continues its bid to consolidate its outstanding dollar debt into one bond maturing 2024.
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As the first trades of the new year hit the screen this week, one new line stuck out in the deal announcements — a specification that the target market for the issue would only be eligible counterparties and professional clients, a piece of boilerplate to comply with the new MiFID II rules.
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The Republic of Slovenia brought forward a euro-denominated trade by as much as a week in order to take advantage of a strong issuance window, which enabled it to increase the size of its deal by €500m to €1.5bn, according to Marjan Divjak, director general of Slovenia’s debt management office.
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Slovenia took full advantage of its early market move on Thursday to secure its tightest ever spread, and what it expects to be its lowest coupon, on a new euro-denominated note.
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Slovenia tapped two euro bonds for €700m this week to exchange investors out of some of its dollar debt, in a move that bankers said shows the issuer is one of Europe’s most astute borrowers.
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Slovenia has set final terms on a €700m combined tap of its 2027 and 2040 notes, with leads expecting the trade to have wrapped up by early afternoon on Wednesday.
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Slovenia is once again borrowing in euros to fund a buy-back of its dollar debt as it looks to cut its liabilities in the currency. This is the borrower’s sixth such transaction over the course of two years.
