VTB Capital
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Russian Railways is embarking on a roadshow to market the first ever green Swiss franc bond from Russia, even as fears of the spread of the Covid-19 coronavirus continue to infect EM bond trading. -
Three CEE banks have announced new bond issues this week. Armenia's Ardshinbank has printed a $300m five year bond, Credit Bank of Moscow has initial price guidance out on a dollar five year benchmark and Sovcombank, another Russian bank, has released plans for a roadshow.
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Russian conglomerate Sistema and the Russia-China Investment Fund have sold a Rb15.9bn ($249.7m) chunk of stock in Detsky Mir, the Russian toy store, after a fully marketed offering designed to boost the freefloat of the company and diversify the shareholder base.
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RusHydro will return to the international bond market for roubles with a deal that will likely take 2019’s total issuance in the format above last year’s total.
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Home Credit and Finance Bank, the Russian consumer finance bank, priced a rare additional tier one trade from the country this week.
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Russia's VTB Bank has signed an agreement with African Export-Import Bank (Afreximbank) to boost trade finance cooperation between the two in Africa. The announcement comes on the heels of the inaugural Russia-Africa summit held this week in Sochi, during which a number of trade deals were said to have been signed.
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Russian consumer finance bank Home Credit & Finance Bank has hit the road to market a rare AT1 in a deal that could be a test of emerging markets investors’ risk appetite for less vanilla deals.
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Russian potash producer Uralkali hit the market on Tuesday, tightening pricing on a $500m bond issue, the borrower's first international deal since 2013. DCM bankers are confident Russian issuance will continue to fill the market throughout the fourth quarter, as Norilsk Nickel began a roadshow.
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Russian potash producer Uralkali is going on the road for five year dollar paper, returning to the international market for the first time in six years.
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A pair of CEE corporates, Veon Holdings and NordGold, released initial price guidance for bonds on Tuesday, both offering paper after a break from international issuance.
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Sovcombank was in the market on Monday morning with a subordinated bond, just 10 days after the issuer’s credit rating was upgraded by two major ratings agencies.
