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ESM-EFSF

  • The European Financial Stability Facility rounded off its funding programme for the year with a pair of taps on Tuesday with a deal praised as “an impressive result”.
  • SSA
    The European Financial Stability Facility (EFSF) announced on Monday that it would complete its 2017 funding programme with a pair of taps on Tuesday. Conditions in euros looked strong on Monday, as they allowed the Council of Auckland to pull its spread in by 7bp for its second ever euro deal.
  • SSA
    Last week was a momentous one for dollar borrowing in the SSA market. The European Stability Mechanism made its long awaited debut in dollars, swiftly followed by a pair of rare 10 year transactions. Read on to see how the BondMarker voters rated the deals.
  • The European Financial Stability Facility should aim for a bond in the 10 to 12 year part of the curve if it wants to complete its funding for the year next week, according to an SSA syndicate official.
  • SSA
    After several months without any long end dollar benchmark bonds from public sector issuers, two came along at once this week — bolstering confidence that conditions are right for a borrower to print in jumbo size in the tenor for the first time in more than two years.
  • Rating: Aa1/—/AAA
  • The European Stability Mechanism (ESM) brought its long awaited inaugural dollar transaction to market on Tuesday during a period of feverish activity in a dollar market that is “going from strength to strength”, according to one SSA banker.
  • The European Stability Mechanism is finally set to come to market to sell its first ever dollar bond, lining up for a transaction on Tuesday alongside two SSAs looking to access the rare 10 year dollar tenor.
  • SSA
    The scores have been counted and the results are in. The BondMarker voters have delivered their verdict on last week's crop of benchmarks, including a scintillating pair of deals from supranationals. Two deals from French agencies met with drastically different levels of approval from the BondMarker voters, but both fared better than Land NRW.
  • Rating: Aa1/AA/AA
  • The European Financial Stability Facility (EFSF) will launch its fourth quarter issuance programme with a new six year benchmark, sharing investors’ screens with a 10 year deal from Dexia.
  • Ireland provided the lone benchmark of the week, returning to the syndicated market for the second time this year and printing €4bn of five year paper.