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World Bank tops 2025 issuer rankings for private placements
Tight funding levels and an abundance of investor cash made for brisk MTN issuance in 2025. The story may change in 2026, with public market issuance named as one factor that could crowd out private placements. But a broadening Asian bid for MTNs offers hope for the market, writes Diana Bui
Investors show demand for short-dated FRNs from FIG and corporate credits in private and public formats
Aroundtown and Toyota tap private markets as public supply winds down
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Íslandsbanki is working on a sale of its inaugural international bond, which could come in the next few weeks, EuroWeek can exclusively reveal, after the bank signed a long-awaited global medium term note programme late last week. Islandbanki’s is the first MTN programme launched by an Icelandic bank since the country’s financial crisis in 2008/09.
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Banks that have been shunned by money market funds over the past few years are unlikely to find demand for their short term paper returning to pre-crisis levels, even if the ratings downgrades that had shut them out reverse, a leading money market fund figure warned on Thursday.
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Icelandic banks took an important step towards full capital markets access this week, after Íslandsbanki became the first financial institution to launch a global medium term note programme since the country’s financial crisis in 2008/09.
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Isbank is set to become the third Turkish bank to set up global MTN documentation this year, after its board of directors authorised the creation of a $1.75bn programme.
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ABN Amro has made a triumphant return to the short end of the curve — selling more than €500m of medium term notes on Monday and Tuesday alone — and brought joy to MTN dealers starved of front end supply.
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ABN Amro has made a triumphant return to the short end of the curve — selling more than €500m of medium term notes on Monday and Tuesday alone — and brought joy to MTN dealers starved of front end supply.