Demand for VTB's 10-yr subordinated Eurobonds tops $2 bln - source
MOSCOW. Oct 4 (Interfax) - Demand for VTB's ten-year subordinated Eurobonds exceeds $2 billion, a source on the financial market told Interfax.
Yield guidance for the dollar-denominated Eurobonds is about 7.25%. There are plans to include the bonds in second-tier capital.
The benchmark placement should occur this week.
Barclays, Bank of America Merrill Lynch, Societe Generale CIB and VTB Capital are organizing the placement.
In September VTB placed $125 million in Euro-Commercial Papers (ECP) at 2.2% per annum, as well as $35 million in two-year loan participation notes (LPN) at 2.75% per annum, in the interests of VTB Capital. In August the bank placed 600 million Swiss franc in four-year Eurobonds at 3.15%.
In addition, the bank's Deputy CEO Herbert Moos has not ruled out that the bank might place additional perpetual Eurobonds in a year. In July VTB placed $1 billion worth of perpetual Eurobonds with yield of 9.5% per annum.