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Kommunalbanken showed there is scope for action in the belly of the dollar curve with the first five year benchmark in the currency for three weeks, but longer dated deals still appear out of reach.

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Some medium term note investors believe the Mexican peso may now be undervalued, a pair of deals in the currency suggested this week.

The European Investment Bank and Nederlandse Waterschapsbank priced deals on a day in which another issuer pulled a trade.

Medium term note investors believe the Mexican peso may be undervalued, as they took punts with a series of deals in the currency.

Kommunalbanken (KBN) are set to price the first five year dollar bond for three weeks on Wednesday while Italy’s 30 year bond was the first SSA issuance in the tenor for 2016.

Kommunalbanken is readying a five year bond in what will be the first dollar benchmark in the tenor for three weeks. Meanwhile, European Investment Bank priced a more conservative three year bond.

The European Investment Bank is out with a three year dollar benchmark, which bankers away from the deal feel is aggressively priced — although its leads disagreed with that assessment.

Two new working groups of the Green Bond Principles will begin work next week, on defining greenness and on impact reporting. The move is part of the green bond market’s effort to define itself more clearly, partly in the hope that governments might ultimately subsidise it.

KfW and the European Investment Bank nipped in with one-day executions on Thursday, raising €1bn apiece in what has been a turbulent week.

A storming start to the supranational and agency sterling market showed no signs of abating this week as issuance volume reached a record year-to-date high — and another issuer lined up a deal for Friday.

Sovereign, supranational and agency borrowers in the eurozone could receive an injection of monetary stimulus from the European Central Bank in March — boding well for a series of issuers lining up deals in euros.