By Sean Keating
Russia’s bond market is developing into a big source of rouble-denominated, long-tenor infrastructure debt. At the forefront of that development have been issues by Russian Railways.
The escalating Ukraine crisis has done little, so far, to temper appetite for Russian bond issuers, even at the international level. Although Vladimir Yakunin, president of Russian Railways, is one of the 20 individuals named on the US sanctions list, and a number of international syndicated loans for Russian borrowers have been put on hold, the state-owned rail company’s most recent €500 million nine-year issue sold well against the backdrop of the Crimea annexation, benefiting from a flight to quality.
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