Greece, the former sick man of the eurozone, is preparing for a return to capital markets as early as this week, as the government in Athens takes advantage of cheap global borrowing costs to launch its first sovereign bond since 2010.
JPMorgan and Deutsche Bank have been mandated to manage the bond, believed to be between €2bn and €3bn in size, following talks with a number of investment banks, according to people familiar with the situation.
Greece’s benchmark borrowing costs on a 10-year bond have fallen to a four-year low of just over 6 per cent, down from over 8 per cent in late January, as yield-starved investors who once spurned Europe’s periphery countries pile back in.