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Kyiv, August 6 (Interfax-Ukraine) – The likelihood is high of reaching a compromise between Kyiv-based Finance and Credit Bank and holders of its $100 million issue of eurobond to mature in January 2010, Kyiv-based Astrum Investment Management has said.

"Despite the fact the bank proposes to prolong the payment term on eurobonds for three years and keep the interest rate almost unchanged at 10.5%, we estimate there is a high likelihood of reaching a compromise during the dialogue with investors," the senior financial analyst at Astrum Investment Management, Serhiy Fursa, told Interfax-Ukraine.

The expert said that the restructuring of the bank's eurobonds is not a surprise for the market, and it was taken into account by investors in the assessment of the debt value: at present, the bank's securities are listed at 30-35% of their face value.

Fursa said that earlier the bank selected Morgan Stanley as an advisor on restructuring its foreign debt.

Astrum Investment Management said that the proposed interest rate is low for the issuer, especially taking into account the absence of deterioration.

Finance and Credit was founded in 1990. Among its stockholders as of April 1, 2009 were JSC F&C Realty with 46.96% and Askania Ltd. with 48.88%.