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The central banks responsible for setting rates for the world’s four core currencies have not been so far apart in their policies since the financial crisis of 2008. The US Federal Reserve is in a rate rising cycle — albeit a very slow one — the Bank of England is embarking on another round of quantitative easing, the European Central Bank has added corporate bonds to its purchasing programme and the Bank of Japan is attempting to control not just short-term interest rates but long-term ones too.

The European Investment Bank hit the screens twice on Wednesday, printing long dated euros and tapping a sterling line.

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The volatility of the Mexican peso is causing investors to keep away from long term debt in the currency.

The European Investment Bank has pushed the green bond curve out to the unprecedented length of 21 years with a new issue on Wednesday.

The ebullient tone that characterised the first three weeks of September has faded as investors begin to fret over the US presidential election on November 8, but there is still life in the SSA market.

Municipality Finance has made its long awaited entrance into the green bond market with a dollar five year on the same day that a new green exchange launched.

The European Union’s newly militaristic tone risks undermining the socially responsible activities of its pet bank.

The European Investment Bank has reiterated that it does not finance military infrastructure projects, after a pair of European commissioners suggested altering the supranational's mandate to include funding defence projects.

This week's funding scorecard looks at the progress European supranationals and agencies have made with their funding programmes.

European Investment Bank has kept its pledge to build a Polish zloty benchmark curve, offering its second ever public deal to the market on Wednesday. The deal was backed by domestic investors, and benefited from a strong order book.

The European Investment Bank issued a C$500m ($381.5m) green bond on Friday. This is just the second non-Canadian SSA offering in the Maple market this year.