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Piraeus Bank is on Wednesday opening its book for the issue of a Tier II corporate bond, putting off the process from Tuesday due to the particularly high interest by investors that did not allow for the bank to meet with all interested buyers.
The aim of the Greek lender is to raise 300-350 million euros while offering an interest rate of 9-10 percent.

New Democracy leader Kyriakos Mitsotakis began a two-day visit to the US Thursday where he is expected to brief investors and outline out his vision for the Greek economy.

He is due to speak at Tufts University's Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy in Boston Thursday, while he will meet with investors in New York Friday.

Greece passed the market test successfully on Tuesday, as its 10-year bond issue - for the first time since the country was excluded from the markets in 2010 and entered the bailout mechanism - took advantage of the favorable international climate and the credit rating upgrade by Moody's last Friday.

Greece is set to issue its first 10-year bond in nine years on Tuesday, in an effort to capitalize on the significant improvement in the climate for Greek assets as well as Moody's two-notch credit rating upgrade last Friday.

Greece plans to issue a 10-year bond this week after Moody's raised its rating by two notches, with the state mandating six international banks for the issue.

It will be the second debt sale since Greece exited its third international bailout in August and the first 10-year bond in a decade.

Greece has announced plans to issue a five-year bond, in what be the country's first market test since the end of its international bailout last August.

The country's Public Debt Management Agency on Monday named BofA Merrill Lynch, Goldman Sachs International Bank, HSBC, JP Morgan, Morgan Stanley, and SG CIB as joint lead managers for the issue.

Greece's debt agency is to announce the country's return to the bond markets, with a five-year syndicated issue that may be announced within the day, sources indicated on Monday.

The state aims to raise 2 billion euros from the issue.

Stock markets around the world remained under pressure Monday with investor confidence weighed down by the recent big sell-off that's put key U.S. indexes on course to record their worst December since the 1930s. News that U.S.

Goldman Sachs was mandated by German retailer Metro, to find a buyer for real estate owned by the company in Romania and Bulgaria.

Former senior Goldman Sachs and HSBC banker Matthew Westerman is launching a private investment firm alongside a former colleague and a Greek shipping tycoon, he said on Friday.

Westerman will partner his former Goldman Sachs colleague Julian Metherell and Peter Livanos, who owns Greek shipping company Ceres Hellenic, in a new firm called MW&L Capital Partners.