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Loans and borrowings
12 Months Ended
Dec. 31, 2020
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Loans and borrowings

29.  Loans and borrowings

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

31 December

 

31 December

 

    

2020

    

2019

Non-current liabilities

 

  

 

  

Unsecured bank loans

 

7,779,354

 

6,092,170

Secured bank loans

 

151,543

 

 —

Lease liabilities

 

1,521,713

 

1,101,303

Debt securities issued

 

6,901,075

 

5,483,921

 

 

16,353,685

 

12,677,394

Current liabilities

 

 

 

  

Unsecured bank loans

 

4,049,824

 

6,712,297

Secured bank loans

 

144,261

 

2,415

Lease liabilities

 

577,173

 

431,752

Debt securities issued

 

461,479

 

481,869

 

 

5,232,737

 

7,628,333

 

The company has used loans in accordance with the loan agreement previously signed with J.P.Morgan and AB Svensk Exportkredit under the Swedish Export Credit Organization (“EKN”) insurance. As of 31 December 2020, the Company has used USD 47,100 and USD 29,410 loan on 1 April 2020 and 27 November 2020, respectively, with a fixed interest rate of 3.84%.

As at 31 December 2020, the company signed a green loan agreement amounting to EUR 50,000 with ING European Financial Services Plc. The respective loan has a maturity of 5 years and its annual interest rate is Euribor+1.95%. The loan facility is utilized to finance sustainable investments such as renewable energy, energy efficiency, green digital services and green buildings under the internationally recognized Green Loan Principles. The loan will be repaid at once at the end of the 5-year maturity term. The loan was fully utilized on 20 March 2020.

The company has signed a loan agreement amounting to USD 90,000 with ING BANK N.V. and AB Svensk Exportkredit within the scope of the EKN insurance on 18 December 2020, which can be used for financing the products and services procured from Ericsson AB and Ericsson Telekomunikasyon A.S.. Each tranches has a period of 15 months respectively and the last tranche will be available until April 2024. The repayments of the tranches will be made in 2 equal installments per year and with a fixed interest rate of 3.04%.

The company has signed a loan agreement amounting to EUR 500,000 with the China Development Bank on 10 August 2020, which can be used for the infrastructure investment financing of the Group for 3 years, and can be utilized both in EUR and RMB. The maturity of the loan is 8 years and the first 3 years are without principal repayment. The annual interest rate of the loan is Euribor+2.29% for the EUR tranche and the fixed 5.15% for the RMB tranche.

Within the scope of buy-back decisions on 27 July 2016, 30 January 2017 and 24 March 2020, the Company sold their debt securities issued with a total nominal value of USD 20,500 as at 31 December 2020.

The company has decided to prepay and close its Club loan, which was utilized under the credit agreement disclosed on 17 September 2015 and which is to fully mature on 16 September 2020. Accordingly, the last two principal payments of the loan, which are due in June 2020 and September 2020 as per the credit agreement and which in total amounted to EUR 148.4 million and USD 166.7 million were made on 23 March 2020.

On 4 June 2020, CMB approval has been taken on issuance of management agreement based lease certificates in accordance with capital markets legislation in the domestic market, in Turkish Lira terms, at an amount up to TL 600,000, on various dates and at various amounts without public offering, as private placement and/or to be sold to institutional investors within one year. On 18 November 2020, the Company has issued management agreement based lease certificates amounting TL 50,000 with the maturity of 23 March 2021.

Terms and conditions of outstanding loans are as follows:

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

31 December 2020

 

31 December 2019

 

 

 

 

Interest

 

 

 

Payment

 

Carrying

 

Nominal interest

 

Payment

 

Carrying

 

    

Currency

    

rate type

    

Nominal interest rate

    

period

    

amount

    

Rate

    

period

    

amount

Unsecured bank loans

 

EUR

 

Floating

 

Euribor+2.0%-Euribor+2.2% 

 

2021-2026

 

5,624,277

 

Euribor+1.3%-Euribor+2.2% 

 

2020-2026

 

5,638,726

Unsecured bank loans

 

USD

 

Floating

 

Libor+2.1%-Libor+2.4%  

 

2021-2028

 

2,384,622

 

Libor+1.5%-Libor+2.2%  

 

2020-2028

 

4,478,457

Unsecured bank loans

 

TL

 

Fixed

 

6.5%-16.9%  

 

2021

 

1,627,198

 

9.5%-11.5%  

 

2020

 

1,442,818

Unsecured bank loans

 

UAH

 

Fixed

 

6%-10.9%  

 

2021-2023

 

980,207

 

11.5%-18.0%  

 

2020

 

1,043,883

Unsecured bank loans

 

USD

 

Fixed

 

3.8%  

 

2030

 

501,036

 

 —

 

-

 

-

Unsecured bank loans

 

EUR

 

Fixed

 

1.5%-1.8%  

 

2021-2022

 

428,565

 

 —

 

-

 

-

Unsecured bank loans

 

RMB

 

Fixed

 

5.2%-5.5%  

 

2021-2026

 

283,273

 

5.5%  

 

2020-2026

 

200,583

Secured bank loans

 

USD

 

Floating

 

Libor+1.7%

 

2023

 

259,427

 

 —

 

-

 

-

Secured bank loans

 

EUR

 

Floating

 

Euribor+1.3%  

 

2021

 

36,377

 

 —

 

-

 

-

Secured bank loans (*)

 

BYN

 

Fixed

 

 —

 

 —

 

 —

 

11.5%  

 

2020

 

2,415

Debt securities issued

 

USD

 

Fixed

 

5.8%  

 

2021-2028

 

7,311,688

 

5.8%  

 

2020-2028

 

5,810,989

Debt securities issued

 

TL

 

Fixed

 

15.0%  

 

2021

 

50,866

 

14.0%  

 

2020

 

154,801

Lease liabilities

 

TL

 

Fixed

 

9.8%-45.0%

 

2021-2048

 

1,201,988

 

12.8%-45.0%

 

2020-2048

 

735,211

Lease liabilities

 

UAH

 

Fixed

 

8.1%-24.0%

 

2021-2069

 

555,597

 

16.6%-24.0%

 

2020-2067

 

521,496

Lease liabilities

 

EUR

 

Fixed

 

1.0%-10.0%

 

2021-2034

 

185,557

 

1.0%-7.9%

 

2020-2031

 

162,786

Lease liabilities

 

BYN

 

Fixed

 

11.5%-15.0%

 

2021-2028

 

99,259

 

11.7%-15.0%

 

2020-2028

 

94,998

Lease liabilities

 

USD

 

Fixed

 

3.9%-10.9%  

 

2021-2028

 

56,485

 

3.9%-10.8%  

 

2020-2027

 

18,564

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

21,586,422

 

 

 

 

 

20,305,727

 

(*)Belarusian Telecom pledged certain property, plant and equipment to secure these bank loans. Also, these bank loans are secured by the Government of the Republic of Belarus (Note 37).