Portugal syndicated a new 10 year bond on Wednesday, and drew parallels to deals from Italy and Spain deals earlier in the year as it aimed for a small new issue premium and an high quality order book rather than one of colossal size.
Government bonds around the world were hit by a wave of selling on Friday morning without an obvious trigger from new data or central bank policy updates.
It is almost a month since the ECB promised to “significantly increase” the pace of its purchases under the Pandemic Emergency Purchase Programme.
The European Union sent banks a request for proposals on Thursday to fund a maturity lengthening operation for Portugal and Ireland under its European Financial Stabilisation Mechanism (EFSM) programme.
This week's funding scorecard looks at the progress French agencies have made in their funding programmes at the beginning of April.
The European Investment Bank has become the latest SSA issuer to tap the offshore renminbi (CNH) market, pricing its inaugural Climate Awareness Bond in the currency this week.
The SSA dollar bond market sprang into life this week with a slew of impressive deals.
KfW hit the market with an impressive green bond this week, raising a record €4bn of eight year paper and paying only 1bp of new issue concession to do so.
NN IP has launched the world’s first green bond fund dedicated to sovereign, supranational and agency bonds.
Ben Powell is set to return to his old stomping ground at SEB after 18 months as treasurer for the International Fund for Agricultural Development.
Germany's public sector issuers lead from the front
At the end of June GlobalCapital and DZ Bank brought together some of Germany’s leading public sector bond issuers to discuss the impact of the coronavirus pandemic on their capital markets activities...
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GlobalCapital has held its Bond Awards every year for the past 12 years — but never like this.
It is almost a month since the ECB promised to “significantly increase” the pace of its purchases under the Pandemic Emergency Purchase Programme. So far, the purchase data reveals little in the way of acceleration, but the head of the Italian treasury Davide Iacovoni says it’s on the way.
Deutsche Telekom dialled in to the Aussie dollar market after an almost two year absence this week, extending its curve to 2041.
Three SSA borrowers were set to come to market for five year paper on Wednesday, with two targeting fixed rate benchmarks and the other a five year floater linked to the secured overnight financing rate.
Deutsche Telekom dialled in to the Aussie dollar market after an almost two year absence this week, extending its curve to 2041.
Climate change will become much more prevalent in the International Monetary Fund’s work this year, including its assessments of countries’ financial stability, after sustained complaints that it has not paid enough attention to global warming. Ways to link debt relief to climate action will take longer to implement.
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