Cbonds Group

The Cbonds Group of Companies is a news agency specializing in financial markets. The Group operates in Russia and Ukraine in the following areas of business: maintenance and development of information sites (Cbonds.ru, Investfunds.ru, Preqveca.ru, Mergers.ru), holding thematic conferences and exhibitions on financial markets, publishing activities (Cbonds Review magazine and annual directories).

Cbonds monitors news and financial market conditions, maintains a database of all debt issues: bonds, Eurobonds, syndicated loans, securitization transactions. The Cbonds website publishes market comments from investment houses, key indices, rankings of investment banks - organizers of loans and issuers, issuer ratings, financial statements and much more.

Aktivs

The Cbonds Group consists of:

• Cbonds Agency - provides information on the bond markets of the CIS countries (www.cbonds.info website), mutual funds, shares and other private investment instruments (www.investfunds.ru, www.investfunds.ua, www.investfunds.kz sites), Private Equity and venture capital investment (www.preqveca.ru). Cbonds is also the leading organizer of conferences in Russia on financial markets, holding over 10 conferences annually, including the Russian Bond Congress, Investfunds Forum, the Bond Congress of the CIS and Baltic countries, the Russian Congress of Private Equity, the Russian Bill Congress, etc.

• Mergers.ru is an independent information and analytical portal created in 2004 and focused on a comprehensive study of the Russian market of Mergers & Acquisitions. Updated daily since 2001, the Data Base contains information on more than 10,400 M&A transactions worth about $620 billion. The project subscribers as of October 2011 are about 7,500 market specialists.

• Offerings.ru is an independent information and analytical portal created in 2007 and focused on a comprehensive study of the Russian market of Public and Private Stock Offerings (IPO, SPO, Private placement), preparation of Ratings, and holding events. The Data Base, which has been constantly updated since 2001, contains information about more than 130 placements worth about $66 billion. The project subscribers are about 1,500 market specialists.

Management

Yuri Ignatishin, Managing Director of Mergers.ru and Offerings.ru Tel +7 812 322-9376 ignatishin@mergers.ru

History

The Cbonds news agency has been operating since 2001.

2024: Integration of Cbonds services with RuTerminal platform

Cbonds customers now have full access to the RuTerminal trading platform, can negotiate and conclude deals both among themselves and with members of the RuTerminal platform. SoftWell announced this on May 31, 2024. Read more here.

2018: Cbonds - distributor of NSD Price Center products

On July 10, 2018, the price center of the National Settlement Depository and Cbonds News Agency entered into an agreement under which Cbonds is the official distributor of NSD Price Center (CC) products.

Users of the Cbonds site, as part of a separate package of paid services "NSD Price Center," can now receive information from the Price Center, recognized by the Bank of Russia as a source of calculating the fair value of financial instruments, in the usual sections of the site: bond issue page, Quotes of trading systems, Watchlist and Market Maps. As of July 5, 2018, prices are available for more than 700 issues of Russian issuers.

NSD Price Center data is also available as part of the structured database acquisition and API service. The cost of obtaining data through Cbonds corresponds to the cost of receiving data directly from NSD.

The NSD Price Center provides an estimate of the fair value of fixed income instruments such as ruble bonds with a simple structure and bonds with mortgage coverage. As an additional indicator, the fair value of more than 1,500 instruments calculated on the basis of the previous methodology formed by NSD and NFA continue to be broadcast. The determination of fair value complies with the principles of International Financial Reporting Standards and meets the requirements of Basel II, stressed in NSD.

2011: Merger with analytical portals Mergers.ru and Offerings.ru

On October 17, 2011, it became known that the Cbonds news agency announces a merger with the analytical portals of Mergers.ru (Mergers and Acquisitions in Russia) and Offerings.ru (Public and Private Placements in Russia). As a result of the merger, a leading information and analytical group is formed in the financial markets of Russia and the CIS countries, which will continue to operate as the Cbonds Group.

Cbonds services in the areas of information and analytical products, events, promotion and advertising will be complemented by two areas: mergers and acquisitions of companies (www.mergers.ru), public and private placements (www.offerings.ru).

The new Cbonds group portals (Mergers.ru and Offerings.ru) will offer their partners and customers a new structure, information and analytical products. It is planned to improve the user interface and detail both commercial and non-commercial products. New areas of events and advertising tools are already being worked out.

Founder and Managing Director of Mergers.Ru and Offerings.Ru Yuri Ignatishin will continue to lead the portals, and will also become a partner and member of the board of directors of Cbonds Group.