Currencies
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The Basque Government has picked banks to issue what will be its biggest bond in the public markets for 10 years. -
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Following the success of the first Spanish public sector green bond, the market’s attention has turned to the highly anticipated debut green bond from the Spanish sovereign.
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The Arab Republic of Egypt on Thursday printed a €2bn dual tranche euro deal with a massive negative new issue premium of 22bp on the longer bond — one of the largest ever negative concessions on an EM issue. The deal takes Standard Chartered to the top of Dealogic’s league table of CEEMEA bonds, though it is a title to be only briefly held as the Saudi Aramco jumbo bond is expected next week, which other banks are arranging.
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A French agency and a Belgian sub-sovereign are preparing to issue their first bonds.
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The European Investment Bank and Flemish Community brought sustainability-linked transactions on Thursday, with investors piling in despite a busy market elsewhere.
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It has been a lively start to the second quarter of the year in Swiss franc bonds, marked by geographical diversity in the international sector and a welcome appearance from an industrial borrower in the domestic market.
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Following a flurry of corporate deals earlier in the month, financial institution issuers took control of the primary Swiss franc bond market this week.
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The yen bond market, for all its vibrancy, cannot contain Japan’s ambitious issuers. Banks and corporates are building on efforts to woo dollar and euro investors as they thirst for new sources of funding, writes Morgan Davis
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Romania printed a €3bn triple trancher this week, the country’s largest ever euro deal, with one of the three tranches also being the longest ever euro bond from the country.
