BMO Capital Markets
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The International Finance Corp (IFC) hit screens this week with its first Canadian dollar green bond. The C$750m ($567m) print was the issuer’s largest ever in the currency, as well as the tightest an international SSA issuer has printed against the Canadian Mortgage Bond (CMB) curve, a large and liquid Canadian dollar benchmark.
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SSA issuers of dollar bonds were able to push harder on spread than they have in recent weeks on Wednesday, surprising syndicate bankers away from the deals.
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The International Finance Corp hit screens on Tuesday afternoon with its first Canadian dollar green bond. The C$750m ($567m) bond is the issuer's largest ever in the currency.
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The dollar SSA market burst into life on Tuesday, but some bankers say that the tight spreads and low yields on offer mean there is little guarantee any of the trades will be easy.
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BMO Capital Markets’ SSA banker Lindsay Wortzman is transferring to Toronto, and to replace her the London team have picked up Samantha Cook from Nomura.
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The World Bank was one of a bevy of SSA dollar issuers raising a total of $8.4bn this week, with most of the trades indicating that investors coming back from the summer were having to decipher a completely different market to the one they left.
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The European Bank for Reconstruction and Development had a triumphant debut deal linked to Sofr this week, with the borrower drawing new investors that had never been in its books before.
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The European Bank for Reconstruction and Development has hit screens with its debut trade linked to the secure overnight financing rate (Sofr), with the issuer the third in quick succession to mirror the coupon technique found in the Sonia bond market.
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The dollar SSA market was ablaze on Tuesday, with five deals on screen offering small new issue premiums and gaining chunky demand across the maturity curve.
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Land NRW and Nederlandse Waterschapsbank mandated for dollars on Monday, kickstarting the market again after a fortnight of blank screens in the currency.
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The US corporate bond market continued to crank out investment grade deals despite fears of a global recession battering risk assets this week.