For emerging Europe’s top companies, there has probably never been a better time to raise funding. Rates are at record lows, banks are liquid and willing to lend, and bond buyers are cash-rich and on the hunt for yield pick-up.
“They have the best of all worlds,” says Phil Bennett, first vice president at the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD). “They have more access than they need to local banks, who are scrambling to acquire good quality corporate assets, and to a certain extent they also have access to capital markets, both domestic and international.
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