Currencies
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The Dutch State Treasury Agency has announced that it will reopen its inaugural green bond via auction next Tuesday as it looks to bring the trade closer to a benchmark size. -
The European Investment Bank and the State of Brandenburg have mandated banks to bring euro deals on Thursday, in what has been an extremely thin week for supply with issuers well funded and some weakness in secondaries.
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Trading levels given are bid-side spreads versus mid-swaps and/or an underlying benchmark and bid-yields from the close of business on Monday, June 15. The source for secondary trading levels is ICE Data Services.
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New Zealand attracted record demand for its largest ever bond as it tapped the market with a four year syndication on Tuesday. With the government facing an elevated funding programme in 2020-21 to combat the effect of the coronavirus pandemic, there is a feeling that record-breaking deal sizes will become more common a spectacle.
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Generals, and financial regulators, are always fighting the last war. So it proved when the coronavirus slammed into international markets in mid-March. Many of the tools developed in the 2008 financial crisis were deployed to great effect by central banks. The corners of the financial markets that propagated weakness in 2008 passed the test of 2020. But new risks were thrown up, forcing a new round of improvisation. What lessons will be drawn from the Covid-19 crisis?
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The Flemish Community has mandated banks to arrange the sale of new seven and 30 year bonds as the Belgian sub-sovereign looks to pump in cash to finance a budget deficit which has arisen from the coronavirus pandemic.
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New Zealand hit screens on Monday morning with a new syndicated bond, its third of the 2019-20 fiscal year.
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Finland’s Municipality Finance returned to the domestic New Zealand dollar bond market on Friday after a long absence, to raise its largest Kauri bond since 2008.
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Hong Kong-listed Link Real Estate Investment Trust has raised a HK$1bn ($129m) sustainability-linked loan from OCBC Bank.
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