EIB smashes euro book record with almost €50bn of demand

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The EU: bloc’s SAFE asset adds defence to jumbo programme

One of the key numbers for the SSA bond market is the EU’s borrowing need, published twice a year. The borrower has become one of the largest in the market, issuing €160bn of bonds in 2025, with a similar amount expected in 2026. It anticipates €700bn of funding needs between 2025 and 2030 in support of the various programmes it funds, including for NextGenerationEU. Now it has a new one: a €150bn instrument, which will disburse money to member states for defence in 2026. Siegfried Ruhl (pictured), hors classe adviser to the European Commission’s Directorate-General for Budget and Balazs Ujvari, Commission spokesperson for budget and administration spoke to GlobalCapital’s Ralph Sinclair about the issuer’s path ahead in the bond market.

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SSAs flex pricing power in benchmark markets with lower new issue premiums

The public sector bond market digested more than $900bn of benchmark syndications in the first 10 months of 2025, close to the amount raised the previous year. New issue premiums varied by currency, with the biggest annual change in the euro market, writes Sarah Ainsworth

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SSA issuers tipped to frontload once more as funding needs ramp up

US tariffs, greater sovereign borrowing needs and political upheaval proved no barrier to SSA issuers raising a large amount of funding in 2025, and getting it done early, writes Addison Gong. But those challenges were just a taster for what lies in store for 2026 when the market is likely to become even more crowded

Addison Gong, December 18, 2025

EIB smashes euro book record with almost €50bn of demand

The European Investment Bank received an order book close to two and half times bigger than its previous record in euros on Thursday as it printed its first benchmark in the currency of the year.

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