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The bonds issued by the European Investmnt Bank (EIB) will be traded on the Bucharest Stock Exchange as of Friday, May 8th. Thus, 3 million bonds may be traded in the international bonds category, under the issue symbol EIB14. The bonds are issued in the denomination of 100 RON each and bear an interest rate of 7% per year. The bonds will be redeemed at par on the maturity date, which is May 10th 2014. Romanian investors subscribed for 87% of the EIB bonds issued on May 10th 2007.
EIB has been one of the largest external lenders in Romania in recent years, lending 4.9 billion EUR since 1993, for projects in the following public sectors: roads, motorways, energy, water/wastewater, health and education as well as private sector investments. Among other projects, the Bank has recently financed the construction of a wastewater treatment plant in Bucharest and the motorway connection Bucharest-Constanta.
In the past five years, EIB has issued bonds in eight European currencies: Bulgarian leva, Czech koruna, Hungarian forint, Maltese liri, Polish zloty, Slovenian tolar, Slovak koruna and Turkish lira. The EIB has the highest issuer credit rating of Aaa/AAA/AAA (Moody"s/Standard & Poors/Fitch). The Bank is the world"s largest supranational borrower and lender, and is one of the largest and most frequent borrowers in the international capital markets.
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