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The European Investment Bank is rejigging its funding team to create teams dedicated to products rather than currencies, and is targeting new markets, including China.

If that sounds like an easy question to answer, consider the hypothetical case of a lender backing a scheme to retrain adults as computer programmers, or accountants in a city like Katowice, the capital of the Polish region of Silesia

There are close to 5 million motorbikes and scooters in the Vietnamese capital city, Hanoi. To put this figure into perspective, it means there is more than one motorbike or scooter for every two residents of the city, which has a population of about 7.8 million

Public sector borrowers snapped up cut price deals in the private markets this week, helping to quell trades in the benchmark sector.

More supranational banks will use synthetic securitization and other risk transfer techniques, specialists believe, after the African Development Bank’s trailblazing $1bn deal, revealed this week, writes Jon Hay.

The European Investment Bank’s latest dollar benchmark chalked up one of the highest BondMarker scores of the year so far in the currency.

This week's funding scorecard looks at the progress supranationals have made in their funding programmes.

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After a stellar public sector euro market in 2018, there were signs on several deals this week that demand has waned.

The European Investment Bank got a lukewarm reception for its new July 2024 transaction on Wednesday, despite a hefty new issue premium.

The European Investment Bank mandated banks on Tuesday for a new short six year Earn, while the European Stability Facility completed its funding for the third quarter with a tap of a five year issue.

The European Investment Bank launched its new line of Sustainability Awareness Bonds on Thursday, with a €500m issue that found keen demand from investors. The EIB hopes the SABs will influence the debate on classification in the world of sustainable finance, including the European Commission’s new official Taxonomy of sustainable economic activities.