Slovenia
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Republic of Poland raised €500m with its longest ever syndicated bond as part of its push to extend the average duration of the country’s debt by taking advantage of low rates, as Slovenia made plans to reduce debt costs by buying back three of its dollar bonds. -
Institutional investors turned out in force for Slovenia’s euro market return on Wednesday, allowing the sovereign to tighten pricing by more than 10bp.
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Big bids from across Europe allowed Slovenia to tighten pricing by more than 10bp on its euro market return on Wednesday.
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Slovenia became the first central and eastern European name to tap the core currency markets after the summer lull on Wednesday with a reopening of its €1bn March 2035s.
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Slovenia intends to buy back up to $1bn of dollar denominated debt following the successful placement of a new euro bond, the country's debt office said on Tuesday.
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Balkan telecoms provider United Group on Tuesday sold a €150m tap to fund the purchase of smaller peer companies in the former Yugoslavia.
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Melrose Industries, the UK company that aims to buy, improve and sell underperforming industrial businesses, will conduct a heavily dilutive £1.655bn rights issue, cheering equity capital markets bankers who had feared months of weak activity, especially in the UK, after the shock of the Brexit referendum.
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Slovenian Sovereign Holdings (SSH), which manages Slovenian state assets, has postponed marketing for the IPO of Nova Ljubljanska banka, the country's largest bank, citing market turbulence surrounding the UK’s vote to leave the European Union.
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Slovenia took advantage of low euro funding costs this week to prudently manage its debt by swapping out of dollars and into euros.
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Slovenia opened up the long end of the curve on Wednesday with a double tap to raise an additional €1.25bn from a €2.3bn book.
