ESM-EFSF
-
Spain has picked banks for its second deal of the year, looking towards the long end of the curve for the first time since May 2016. -
The State of North Rhine-Westphalia showed that the euro long end is open for core SSAs despite wider market volatility on Thursday, but there was a more testing time for Greece in secondary.
-
This week's funding scorecard looks at the progress Europe's supranational and agency borrowers have made in their funding programmes.
-
-
The euro SSA market reacted with commendable calmness to the Dow Jones’s worst day in six years on Monday but moves in the secondary market on Thursday showed that “vol isn’t dead”, according to one head of SSA DCM.
-
The European Stability Mechanism has cut more than 20% from its funding target for 2018 after approving a request from Spain to pay back €5bn of its ESM loan ahead of schedule.
-
The European Financial Stability Facility (EFSF) gathered a €14bn book on Wednesday, easily covering its €3bn no-grow deal. The no-grow language, plus the pick-up to OATs it offered, likely helped demand, said bankers.
-
A pair of euro borrowers braved a tricky market on Tuesday, raising a combined €4bn despite heavy weather in government spreads. One opted for a defensive pricing strategy, while the other attempted to squeeze investors.
-
While the fast pace of issuance that characterised the SSA market in January has abated, the euro sector provided some rarer names with funding across the curve this week, in spite of a general widening of spreads.
-
-
While European Central Bank president Mario Draghi kept firmly to his course of accommodative monetary policy at Thursday’s press conference, the euro strengthened further against the dollar, dragging Bund yields up with it. Lewis McLellan reports.
-
The European Financial Stability Facility has raised €4.5bn with a dual tranche transaction, likely rounding off the week’s euro issuance ahead of the European Central Bank governing council’s press conference on Thursday.
