3 Mar 2015 15:55

RZD planning to issue first infrastructure bonds in beginning of Q2

MOSCOW. March 3 (Interfax) - Russian Railways (RZD) is planning to issue its first infrastructure bonds in the beginning of Q2 2015, the deputy chief of the company's corporate finance department, Pavel Ilyichev, told journalists on the sidelines of the Bonds, Loans & Derivatives Russia & CIS conference in Moscow on Tuesday.

It was previously reported that RZD is planning to place 100 billion rubles in infrastructure bonds in 2015.

Ilyichev did not say how much the first issue would be for, but he expressed hope that all 100 billion rubles would be issued within a year.