{"id":24997,"date":"2020-02-13T18:17:31","date_gmt":"2020-02-13T17:17:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/eph23.atelierzidlicky.eu\/?post_type=press-releases&#038;p=24997"},"modified":"2020-02-14T12:16:10","modified_gmt":"2020-02-14T11:16:10","slug":"eph-issues-medium-term-bonds","status":"publish","type":"press-releases","link":"https:\/\/eph23.atelierzidlicky.eu\/en\/press-releases\/eph-issues-medium-term-bonds\/","title":{"rendered":"EPH issues medium-term bonds"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Energetick\u00fd a&nbsp;pr\u016fmyslov\u00fd holding, a.s. (EPH) issues through its&nbsp;subsidiary EPH Financing CZ, a.s. 5-year bonds up to the&nbsp;total volume of&nbsp;CZK 5 billion with a&nbsp;potential increase up to CZK 7.5 billion with the&nbsp;fixed interest profit 4.50% p.a. EPH Financing CZ, a.s. mandated a&nbsp;consortium of&nbsp;banks consisting of&nbsp;\u010cesk\u00e1 spo\u0159itelna, a.s., J&amp;T BANKA a.s., Komer\u010dn\u00ed banka a.s. and&nbsp;UniCredit Bank Czech Republic and&nbsp;Slovakia, a.s. to place the&nbsp;new bond issue.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Proceeds of&nbsp;the&nbsp;bonds issue will be mainly used for refinancing of&nbsp;existing debt of&nbsp;the&nbsp;EPH group due in&nbsp;2020.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;<em>We expect that this is going to be one of&nbsp;the&nbsp;largest bond issues on the&nbsp;Czech market. We are pleased with the&nbsp;interest of&nbsp;banks supporting EPH in&nbsp;the&nbsp;process of&nbsp;optimization of&nbsp;maturity profile of&nbsp;our indebtedness which is low in&nbsp;comparison to our peers on the&nbsp;European energy market. This reflects the&nbsp;group&#8217;s&nbsp;stable performance due to operation of&nbsp;our regulated and&nbsp;long-term contracted assets in&nbsp;the&nbsp;field of&nbsp;energy infrastructure and&nbsp;power generation<\/em>,&#8221; said Pavel Horsk\u00fd, CFO and&nbsp;a&nbsp;member of&nbsp;the&nbsp;Board of&nbsp;Directors of&nbsp;EPH.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>A public offering of&nbsp;bonds in&nbsp;the&nbsp;Czech Republic has been already initiated and&nbsp;after all regulatory approvals are obtained EPH will consider public offering also in&nbsp;the&nbsp;Slovak Republic.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Energetick\u00fd a&nbsp;pr\u016fmyslov\u00fd holding, a.s. (EPH) issues through its&nbsp;subsidiary EPH Financing CZ, a.s. 5-year bonds up to the&nbsp;total volume of&nbsp;CZK 5 billion with a&nbsp;potential increase up to CZK 7.5 billion with the&nbsp;fixed interest profit 4.50% p.a. EPH Financing CZ, a.s. mandated a&nbsp;consortium of&nbsp;banks consisting of&nbsp;\u010cesk\u00e1 spo\u0159itelna, a.s., J&amp;T BANKA a.s., Komer\u010dn\u00ed banka a.s. and&nbsp;UniCredit Bank Czech [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":0,"template":"","meta":{"_expiration-date-status":"","_expiration-date":0,"_expiration-date-type":"","_expiration-date-categories":[],"_expiration-date-options":[]},"tax-year":[90],"acf":[],"wpml_current_locale":"en_US","wpml_translations":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eph23.atelierzidlicky.eu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/press-releases\/24997"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eph23.atelierzidlicky.eu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/press-releases"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eph23.atelierzidlicky.eu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/press-releases"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eph23.atelierzidlicky.eu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24997"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"tax-year","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eph23.atelierzidlicky.eu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tax-year?post=24997"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}