Currencies

The first Kangaroo deals of 2020 from SSAs started trickling through this week, after ANZ blew the doors off the Australian dollar market with a A$3.5bn ($2.4bn) self-led domestic deal on Tuesday.

Investors piled into the euro public sector bond market on Wednesday, allowing borrowers to achieve well subscribed order books and minimal new issue concessions for a range of maturities.

A diverse combination of an international historical stalwart and a handful of usual suspects from the domestic market ensured a solid start to the year for the Swiss franc bond market.

Government bond yields have moved fast this week as investors adjust to the risks posed by escalating tensions between the US and Iran. That is having a knock-on effect on swap spreads and the two factors are combining to add complexity to new issue pricing in the SSA market. Nonetheless, issuers are pulling off aggressive and successful deals.

Minmetals Land’s subsidiary, Onfem Finance, has attracted 17 lenders during syndication, allowing the borrower to boost its loan to HK$6bn ($771m).

The Republic of Indonesia made an opportunistic outing this week, tapping both the dollar and the euro bond markets for about $3bn. The sovereign started the year with a different approach to its annual funding, in a bid to take advantage of strong liquidity in both the currencies, writes Morgan Davis.

A strong reception for a five year euro benchmark by KfW on Tuesday was enough to lure in a hesitant flock of public sector borrowers to the euro market as the pipeline stacks up for Wednesday’s business.

The Republic of Slovenia became the first CEEMEA issuer to print a bond this decade, quickly launching a €1.5bn deal from a book of €11.75bn on Tuesday.

The World Bank hit screens on Monday with a mandate for a new five year sustainable development Maple bond — its first public Canadian dollar issue since September.

The pipeline is starting to fill in the public sector bond market with the European Investment Bank and Kommunalbanken set to bring dollar deals and KfW preparing its first euro benchmark of the year. More deals — including the first sovereign syndication of the year— are set to follow this week.

Industrial Securities (Hong Kong) Financial Holdings, Zhengzhou Zhongrui Industrial Group Co and Shandong Iron & Steel Group Co priced international bonds during the last days of 2019, capping a strong year for Asia’s debt market.

Singapore-based aircraft leasing company Avation has obtained a green loan to support its purchase of aircraft.