Australian dollar

World Bank played first responder to Asian investor calls for longer-dated Aussie dollar bonds on Monday, printing a landmark A$135m ($103.9m) November 2031 note. It is the first 15 year benchmark in the currency by a non-domestic SSA name. More could follow.

The African Development Bank (AfDB) added a A$30m ($22.8m) tap to its June 2026 Kangaroo line on Monday. The trade could precede more issuance in this market from the borrower as it grapples with a ramped up funding target.

Eurofima, Inter-American Development Bank and International Finance Corporation tapped their 10 year Kangaroo lines this week, raising a total A$180m ($136.8m), as Asian investors looked for yield from the Aussie market.

The International Finance Corporation tapped a July 2026 Australian dollar bond for A$50m ($38.1m) on Monday. As part of its efforts to increase the minimum size of its 10 year Kangaroo taps from A$20m to A$50m, the IFC found investors to top up an initial A$30m reverse enquiry.

Australia sold its largest ever bond in its longest ever maturity on Wednesday. Overseas investors swarmed towards the sovereign’s high yielding offer.

Rentenbank tapped its new 10 year Kangaroo line for A$50m ($37.8m) on Tuesday. Attracting a mixture of Asian accounts, the agency's long dated paper pulled in a wide range of investors.

The Kangaroo market has faced a variety of challenges but, for each challenge, it has evolved to provide new pockets of value for investors and to meet borrowers’ requirements as they respond to the constantly shifting market realities. By Lewis McLellan.

The Inter-American Development Bank, a Canadian sub-sovereign and two Danish agencies offered chunky issuance to the Kangaroo market this week. The SSAs took advantage of Asian accounts looking to work their cash at the 10 year part of the Australian dollar curve.

The Canadian province of Quebec added a 10th tap to its May 2026 Kangaroo line on Wednesday. The lead praised the borrower's swift execution of Kangaroo taps at the longer end of the curve.

The Inter-American Development on Tuesday extended its Kangaroo curve with an April 2027 issue. The new bond is, in effect, replacing IADB's June 2026 bond, the borrower said.

Bank Nederlandse Gemeenten and Nederlandse Waterschapsbank were stunned by the scale of reverse enquiry for taps to their Kangaroo notes on Tuesday, with a rare Japanese investor driving both deals to double the size of any previous tap to their respective 10 year lines.

International Finance Corp and KommuneKredit tapped 10 year Kangaroo bonds this week, the only active tenor in the market.