Metinvest B.V. (Netherlands), the parent company of the Metinvest mining and metallurgical group, is set to repay $428 million on its 2026 bonds with an 8.5% annual interest rate and $42 million on other obligations in 2026, for a total of $470 million.
According to a presentation based on Metinvest B.V.’s annual report, the company is scheduled to pay $332 million on its 2027 bonds at 7.65% per annum and an additional $19 million on other obligations in 2027, for a total of $351 million.
In 2028, the group is to pay only $18 million on other liabilities, and in 2029—$500 million on the 2029 bonds at 7.75% per annum and another $50 million on other liabilities, for a total of $550 million.
It is noted that the scheduled payments include only the principal amount of the debt (excluding accrued interest, fees, and discounts) as of December 31, 2025. In turn, trade finance lines are predominantly revolving, and therefore excluded from this repayment profile.
The company’s total debt as of December 31, 2025, decreased by 15% compared to 2024—to $1.441 billion from $1.705 billion. Net debt at the end of 2025 stood at $1.065 billion, and at the end of 2024—$1.048 billion.
The presentation notes that in 2025, the group, in particular, fully repaid its senior bonds totaling EUR300 million in the first half of the year. Since the beginning of 2022, it has repaid a total of $801 million in debt.
In July 2025, the group secured an 11.5-year buyer credit facility of EUR23.6 million for Northern GOK to finance the purchase of equipment for the tailings thickening project. The facility is covered by Finnvera, the Finnish export credit agency.
As reported, over the past month, Metinvest has explored refinancing options and resumed negotiations with its largest bondholders to extend the maturity of a portion of its outstanding senior bonds maturing in April 2026. Ultimately, the group intends to fully repay the bonds but will continue to seek opportunities to access debt markets in the future.
In 2025, Metinvest reduced its EBITDA by 24.2% compared to the previous year—to $765 million from $1.009 billion. The company ended 2025 with a net loss of $191 million, compared to a net loss of $1.152 billion in 2024. Meanwhile, pre-tax profit stood at $77 million, whereas the company reported a pre-tax loss of $1.138 billion for 2024. Revenue for the past year decreased by 6% to $7.242 billion. The company reported an operating profit of $319 million for the reporting period, compared to an operating loss of $858 million in 2024.
Metinvest CEO Yuriy Ryzhenkov noted in his comments a “disciplined and responsible approach to debt management.”
“Between 2022 and 2025, we reduced total debt by approximately $800 million, to $1.441 billion as of December 31, 2025. This is a significant achievement, given the extraordinary circumstances in which we operated,” the CEO emphasized.
Metinvest is a vertically integrated group of mining and metallurgical enterprises. Its facilities are located in Ukraine—in the Donetsk, Luhansk, Zaporizhzhia, and Dnipropetrovsk regions—as well as in European Union countries, the United Kingdom, and the United States. The holding’s main shareholders are the SCM Group (71.24%) and Smart Holding (23.76%). Metinvest Holding LLC is the management company of the Metinvest Group.
FEST COFFEE MISSION plans to issue series B corporate bonds worth UAH 200 million in 2026, with yields pegged to the US dollar, company founder Andriy Khudo announced on his Facebook page.
According to him, the bond issue is seen as a tool for further development of the coffee business amid the transformation of the Ukrainian coffee market and the growth of the share of local roasting.
Khudo noted that over the past year, the share of Ukrainian roasting in the market has grown from approximately 48% to 55%, while imports of ready-roasted coffee are gradually declining and imports of green beans, on the contrary, are increasing. According to his assessment, Ukraine is gradually moving from a model of purchasing finished products to a model of domestic value creation.
According to the founder of FEST COFFEE MISSION, the company works exclusively with specialty Arabica beans, which are rated 82 points and above on the Specialty Coffee Association scale. Purchases are made on a direct trade model, i.e., directly from farmers without intermediaries.
According to published data, the company cooperates with more than 200 farmers in more than 12 countries where Arabica is grown. FEST COFFEE MISSION has offices in six countries and warehouses in Ukraine, Poland, Turkey, Switzerland, and Argentina. The total storage capacity for green beans is almost 1 million kg.
According to Khudo, by the end of 2025, the company’s share in the total import of green Arabica coffee to Ukraine was 12%, and in the specialty Arabica segment, it was about 80%. At the same time, 82% of imported beans are sold on the Ukrainian market, and the company’s customers include about 200 Ukrainian roasters, which, according to the company’s estimates, corresponds to approximately 80% of their total number in the country.
He also recalled that in 2024, the company had already issued Series A bonds worth UAH 100 million. The new Series B issue is intended to be a continuation of the strategy of scaling the business through expanding international presence, strengthening quality control, and developing the customer base.
The company also states that it is investing not only in grain imports but also in the development of industry infrastructure. In particular, FEST COFFEE MISSION owns, according to its data, the only laboratory in Ukraine certified by the Coffee Quality Institute, participates in professional market training, and in January 2026 initiated the All-Ukrainian Filter Coffee Day, which was joined by about 300 coffee shops and roasters.
Thus, the company is positioning the future bond issue as an opportunity to raise capital for further growth amid structural changes in the Ukrainian specialty coffee market.
The international financial service NovaPay (TM NovaPay) from the Nova group has placed the entire series of “M” bonds, issued by its subsidiary NovaPay Credit, with a nominal value of UAH 200 million, while 11 of the previous 12 series were issued with a nominal value of UAH 100 million each, and another one – UAH 90 million.
As stated in the company’s announcement on Friday, the National Securities and Stock Market Commission (NSSMC) approved the placement report on January 29, 2026, while the bonds were issued in the fourth quarter of 2025.
Like most NovaPay bond series, the M series bonds will be used in repo transactions, which the company promotes as an alternative to bank deposits: the bonds are issued in denominations of UAH 1,000 for three years with a coupon payment at a rate of 18% per annum upon maturity.
The funds raised from the bond issue are planned to be used for lending operations to legal entities (20%) and individuals (80%).
NovaPay emphasized that as of early 2026, more than 7,100 customers had become owners of the service’s corporate bonds for a total amount of UAH 1.25 billion.
As reported, NovaPay Credit increased its net profit by 1.8 times in January-September 2025 compared to the same period last year, to UAH 101.56 million, but according to the results of the year, it was planned to bring it to UAH 518.9 million, and in 2026 to increase it to UAH 1 billion 30.6 million by increasing net interest income from UAH 802.1 million to UAH 1 billion 515.1 million.
In total, during 2023-2025, NovaPay carried out 12 bond issues with a total nominal value of UAH 1 billion 190 million. Securities of all series, except for three, are used for the REPO operations program as an alternative to bank deposits. They are available for purchase in the NovaPay mobile application, and interest payments on them are scheduled to be made once upon redemption. Interest on bonds for institutional investors is paid quarterly. They also have an annual offer, and the nominal yield for the first year of circulation is 18% per annum. Series “K” became the third for institutional investors.
In September 2025, the service redeemed two-year Series C bonds worth UAH 100 million, which it placed among institutional investors. The issuer’s portfolio still has another series, Series I, of bonds of this type worth UAH 90 million.
NovaPay was founded in 2001 as an international financial service, part of the Nova group (“Nova Poshta”), providing online and offline financial services in Nova Poshta branches. According to the website, the company employs about 13,000 people in more than 3,600 Nova Poshta branches throughout Ukraine. According to the National Bank of Ukraine, the company accounts for about 35% of the total volume of domestic money transfers.
NovaPay was the first non-bank financial institution in Ukraine to receive an extended license from the NBU in 2023, which allowed it to open accounts and issue cards, and was also the first non-bank to launch its own financial application with a wide range of financial services at the end of last year.
Noble Capital RSD LLC has filed a lawsuit in the US District Court for the District of Columbia against the Russian Federation, the Russian Ministry of Finance, the Bank of Russia, and the Russian National Welfare Fund, demanding recognition of obligations under sovereign bonds of the Russian Empire placed with investors in the US and recovery of at least $225.8 billion from the defendants. The court documents are available here: https://ia800707.us.archive.org/35/items/gov.uscourts.dcd.281398/gov.uscourts.dcd.281398.1.0.pdf
According to the text of the complaint, the plaintiff is asking the court to issue a declaratory judgment on the principal debt and interest (adjusted for gold), as well as to recognize the possibility of “set-off” of this amount against “blocked sovereign assets of the Russian Federation” in accounts with financial institutions where such assets may be located. Claims for interim measures have also been filed – a ban on the transfer or “mobilization” of blocked assets and the appointment of an equitable receiver for the purposes of enforcement.
The case materials show that the defendants were notified of the lawsuit on October 1, 2025, and the court granted the Russian side an extension to respond to the lawsuit until January 29, 2026.
This construction (settlement through a private law dispute) can be seen as an attempt to shift the discussion of frozen assets from the realm of political confiscation to the realm of civil law mechanisms.
After February 24, 2022, some countries froze significant amounts of Russian sovereign assets. The European Union froze €210 billion, with Euroclear holding approximately €193 billion of these funds.
https://ia800707.us.archive.org/35/items/gov.uscourts.dcd.281398/gov.uscourts.dcd.281398.1.0.pdf
Noble Capital RSD LLC is a private company in the form of an LLC registered in the state of Delaware (USA). In court documents, it is described as the assignee and legal owner of a block of “sovereign bonds” placed in the United States during the Russian Empire.
Vodafone Ukraine (VFU), Ukraine’s second-largest mobile operator, which repurchased its own Eurobonds worth approximately $18.9 million at the end of May following several offers in connection with the payment of dividends, has announced another similar tender at a price of 98% of the nominal value for a total amount of $1.475 million.
As noted in a statement on the Irish Stock Exchange on Wednesday, on January 2, the company made another monthly dividend payment of UAH 49.315 million, which is equivalent to the monthly ceiling of EUR 1 million set by the National Bank.
Applications for participation in the tender will be accepted until January 21 inclusive, and settlements are planned for January 28.
Bonds maturing in February 2027 with a nominal rate of 9.625% per annum were issued for $300 million. Their redemption is related to the fact that on April 24, 2025, VFU announced the accrual of dividends to its shareholder in the amount of UAH 660.245 million ($15.9 million at the exchange rate specified in the announcement) for 2024. According to the restrictions of the National Bank, they will be paid in separate monthly payments. Each such monthly dividend is expected to amount to UAH 1 million. The company emphasized that under the terms of the bond issue, in this case, it must offer all bondholders to submit an application for their sale for an amount equal to the amount of dividends paid outside Ukraine.
In the first two tenders, mobile operator Vodafone Ukraine repurchased bonds for an amount equivalent to EUR 1 million. The debut repurchase was announced at a price of 99% of the nominal value, the second at 90% of the nominal value. The company did not announce the results of the second buyback on the stock exchange, while the scaling factor for the first buyback was 0.0040355668.
Following the results of the third tender, where the redemption price was reduced to 85% of the nominal value and the offer was limited to $4.67 million, Vodafone Ukraine received bids for $53.395 million and satisfied them in the amount of $5.208 million. The scaling factor was 0.1315451889487317.
The fourth tender was announced on August 13, but was then extended seven times. As a result, the redemption price was increased from 85% to 98%, and the redemption amount to $10.84 million. The company received bids for $127.14 million for this amount. Some of the bonds were returned to their owners due to the impossibility of splitting the nominal value, and the rest were accepted with a scaling factor of 0.1150681.
Finally, at the fifth bond redemption tender in December, where the price was again 98%, Vodafone Ukraine received high demand, which exceeded the offer of $1 million 164.7 thousand by more than 50 times. The scaling factor was set at 0.01901.
In total, according to the results of five tenders, the total nominal value of bonds remaining in circulation is $280 million 614.93 thousand.
As reported, mobile operator VFU increased its net profit by 10.7% to UAH 3 billion 446.80 million and its revenue by 13.3% to UAH 19.03 billion in the first nine months of this year.
The report noted that in order to service and redeem Eurobonds, the company received loans from related parties in 2025. In February, the parent company Telco Investments B.V. provided $49.59 million for partial repayment of the Eurobond debt. In June, an agreement was signed with Telco Investments for a dollar credit line in the amount equivalent to UAH 660 million, at 10% per annum, maturing in 2028.
Finally, in July 2025, a loan agreement was signed with the Dutch company Cemin B.V. for $10 million at 10% per annum, with a repayment date no later than the end of 2027, but not earlier than the maturity of the Eurobonds. The funds are credited in tranches to the company’s bank account in a foreign bank and are to be used to redeem bonds, which Vodafone Ukraine is doing in connection with the resumption of dividend payments this year.
Reuters reports that Uzbek startup Uzum, the largest player in the fintech and e-commerce sector in Uzbekistan, is considering listing on the London Stock Exchange. This was announced in an interview with the agency by the company’s co-founder Nikolai Seleznyov.
According to him, London has been added to the list of potential venues for an IPO, alongside the Nasdaq (New York), Abu Dhabi, and Hong Kong exchanges, where interest in Uzum has grown following investments by Chinese company Tencent.
Founded in 2022, Uzum quickly became Uzbekistan’s most valuable startup, valued at $1.5 billion. In August, the company raised $70 million in equity capital from Tencent and the American fund VR Capital, becoming the first “unicorn” (startup unicorn) in the country’s history. Currently, about 17 million Uzbeks use Uzum’s services every month.
Seleznyov noted that the initial public offering (IPO) is planned for 2027, but it is too early to discuss a specific target valuation.
“If we were to go public on the London Stock Exchange, we would definitely consider the FTSE 100,” he said.
During the latest round of funding, Uzum also attracted the attention of investors from the UK and the Middle East. According to Seleznyov, many of them are interested not only in the company itself, but also in the economic potential of Uzbekistan, which in recent years has been actively pursuing reforms under the leadership of President Shavkat Mirziyoyev, opening the country to international investment.
Seleznyov explained that Uzum is considering a foreign IPO due to liquidity and investor base structure issues that affect the company’s valuation. At the same time, he stressed that strengthening its position in the domestic market remains a priority:
“We are not seeking overly rapid geographical expansion. First, we want to truly conquer and dominate Uzbekistan to prove that we are capable of building a system that is competitive on a global level,” he said.
Thus, as Reuters notes, Uzum is not just a fast-growing fintech startup, but a symbol of a new wave of technological development in Uzbekistan, demonstrating the growing confidence of international investors in the country’s economic reforms.
