KB prezent. angl - Komerční banka
KB prezent. angl - Komerční banka
KB prezent. angl - Komerční banka
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026 ➔027<br />
Report of the Board of Directors<br />
Investment Banking<br />
<strong>Komerční</strong> <strong>banka</strong> confirmed its position as a leading provider of Investment Banking services to clients in 2003. <strong>KB</strong> offers<br />
clients a comprehensive range of products and services on financial markets, in securities and asset management. In terms<br />
of debt products, <strong>KB</strong> further strengthened its leading position, having been mandated to arrange transactions exceeding<br />
CZK 13 billion. The Bank also provides services in mergers and acquisitions, and economic and strategy research. Investment<br />
banking also governs the interest-rate and foreign-exchange risks of the Bank and implements the Bank’s hedging policy.<br />
Securities<br />
In 2003, <strong>Komerční</strong> <strong>banka</strong> played an important role on the capital market in the Czech Republic. As one of the top three local<br />
market makers for both government and corporate bonds, <strong>Komerční</strong> <strong>banka</strong> started to provide its institutional clients with<br />
electronic trading in Czech government bonds on the Bloomberg executive pages platform. This should be the springboard<br />
for the coverage of other instruments and Central European currencies (the Slovak Republic, Poland and Hungary) in this<br />
state-of-the-art field in the future.<br />
<strong>Komerční</strong> <strong>banka</strong> grew stronger on the primary bond market as well. In addition to a growing share in the Czech government bond<br />
auctions, the Bank took an active role as the lead-manager and co-manager for banking and corporate issues, such as the <strong>KB</strong><br />
mortgage bond programme, and issues of the European Investment Bank, Česká konsolidační agentura, ČEZ, Český Telecom, etc.<br />
In its equities trading, <strong>Komerční</strong> <strong>banka</strong> extended the number of issues for which it is market maker to include ČEZ and Český<br />
Telecom. The trend of market making expansion should continue in 2004 as well.<br />
The Bank, together with Société Générale structured some tailor-made products for its institutional clients, which is<br />
a significant advancement in the range of the product portfolio in comparison to 2002.<br />
Debt Capital Markets<br />
<strong>Komerční</strong> <strong>banka</strong> was one of the top providers for the sophisticated financing of large volumes to clients with operations in the<br />
Czech Republic. <strong>KB</strong> provides a turnkey service, starting with an analysis of the client’s needs and proposals of various<br />
alternative solutions. The solution preferred by the client is then turned into a suitable structure, and the Bank executes the<br />
transaction by means of a syndicated loan or a bond issue.<br />
In 2003, <strong>KB</strong> was mandated by three clients to underwrite and secure multi-billion debt transactions in the area of syndicated<br />
loans. For example, the successful arrangement and placing of a syndicated long-term loan in the total amount of CZK 8 billion for<br />
Veolia Environment was the largest corporate syndicated loan in CZK ever completed. In each of its transactions, <strong>KB</strong> achieved<br />
a major success, documented by oversubscription.<br />
<strong>Komerční</strong> <strong>banka</strong> can also draw on the transactional and industry expertise of Société Générale. This enables <strong>KB</strong> to offer<br />
innovative and well-structured ideas to clients while executing them locally at a reasonable cost.<br />
The Bank also successfully completed one of the first Czech-listed mortgage bond programmes and created mortgage bond<br />
issues, offering an interesting investment alternative to investors in CZK.