OREANDA-NEWS. State Corporation 'Bank for Development and Foreign Economic Affairs (Vnesheconombank)' completed a successful offer and the secondary placement of bonds of series 01v denominated in US dollars with a total par value of 500 million US dollars.

A coupon rate on the bonds was set at 1.75% per annum for a period till maturity one year from now. In the course of implementing the current offer, Vnesheconombank bought out bonds in the amount of 2.5 million US dollars.

The bid book for bonds of series 01v as part of secondary placement was successfully closed on February 19, 2014. The total demand for bonds of series 01v amounted to 259.9 million US dollars exceeding many times the announced amount of the secondary placement. In the course of the secondary placement marketing Vnesheconombank managed not only refinance the bond issue of the current holders but also raise a significant volume of new demand. Investors made bids to buy with a purchase price in the range of from 100.0 to 100.1% of par value of bonds of series 01v.

Raifeisenbank and UniCredit Bank acted as organizers of the offer implementation and the secondary placement of bonds of series 01v.