Scotiabank top stories

• World Bank prints record seven year Maple

  

  The World Bank visited the Maple market on Thursday to print the largest ever seven year Canadian dollar bond from a non-domestic issuer, raising C$750m ($569.8m) with a new sustainable development bond (SDB).

  • 18 Sep 2020

• Delta joins dollar glut as Fed dishes out cash

  Delta Air Lines raised $6bn this week, joining the September stampede by companies to plug their bank accounts and lock in cheap funding.

  • 17 Sep 2020

• BOC dives deeper into sustainability with blue bond

  Bank of China took yet another step this week to build China’s sustainability market by selling Asia’s first blue bond to benefit ocean-related projects — opening the door for similar deals from the region. Morgan Davis reports.

  • 17 Sep 2020

• BOC makes waves with first blue bond

  Bank of China printed Asia’s first blue bond on Monday, with plans to use the roughly $940m raised to benefit ocean-related sustainability projects.

  • 15 Sep 2020

• BOC goes blue in first for Asia’s bond market

  Bank of China rolled out a dual-currency blue bond on Monday, making it the first borrower in Asia to market a marine sustainability transaction.

  • 14 Sep 2020

• SSAs opt for five years in dollars

  A trio of European SSAs raised a combined $6bn with five year dollar benchmarks this week. Kommunalbanken, the European Stability Mechanism and Nordic Investment Bank all hit a “very deep pocket” of demand in the tenor.

  • 03 Sep 2020

• EIB to reboot euro SSA market as dollar deals keep flowing

  The European Investment Bank will re-open the euro public sector bond new issue market for the last funding period of the year. Further issuers are expected to appear this week, trying to get in before the European Union’s giant borrowing programme begins.

  • 24 Aug 2020

• Wynn seals $850m bond on Macau reopening fillip

  Casino developer Wynn Macau has made a rapid return to the bond market for an $850m deal, riding on an uplift in sentiment following the slow easing of travel restrictions to the Asian gambling hub.

  • 20 Aug 2020

• SSAs shun euros for dollars and maple

  The Inter-American Development Bank (IADB) broke the silence in the SSA market with a Canadian dollar sustainable development bond. The deal shared the market with a dollar trade from Kommuninvest, with both issuers steering clear of the almost dormant euro market.

  • 13 Aug 2020

• IADB lines up Canadian dollar SDB

  Inter-American Development Bank will come to market for a Canadian dollar sustainable development bond on Thursday. The trade will share the market with a two year from Kommuninvest.

  • 12 Aug 2020