French Sovereign
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Public sector debt market participants are still on tenterhooks, awaiting the arrival of the EU’s now much delayed funding programme. Many of the sector’s top borrowers have all but cleared their decks in preparation, but some are still grappling with inflated borrowing requirements as a result of the coronavirus pandemic. Lewis McLellan reports. -
Bank Nederlandse Gementeen kicked off a busy week for socially responsible bond issuance by public sector borrowers with a well-received 12 year sustainable bond, its longest ever deal in that format.
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French agency Caisse d'Amortissement de la Dette Sociale returned to the euro social bond market on Tuesday, equalling its impressive achievement earlier this month to print another €5bn deal.
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Trading levels given are bid-side spreads versus mid-swaps and/or an underlying benchmark and bid-yields from the close of business on Monday, September 28. The source for secondary trading levels is ICE Data Services
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Caisse d’Amortissement de la Dette Sociale is set to return to the social bond market in euros after setting the size record for the format in the currency earlier this month — a feat it also recently achieved in the dollar market.
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Agence Française de Développement announced on Thursday that it will be launching a new framework showing how its treasury activities promote the UN’s Sustainable Development Goals. It has also boosted its funding programme to allow it to meet its clients' additional needs caused by the coronavirus pandemic.
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Africa Finance Corp, the pan-African development finance institution, printed its first green bond on Monday.
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Caisse d’Amortissement de la Dette Sociale (Cades) and the International Development Association set new size records this week, with the former bringing the biggest ever social bond in dollars and the latter issuing its biggest ever bond since entering the capital markets in 2018.
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French agency Cades and the International Development Association returned to the dollar market for the first time since the summer break on Tuesday to bring a pair of five year socially responsible deals.
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French agency Cades will debut its social bond framework in dollars on Tuesday, less than a week after it raised the largest ever bond in the format with its inaugural issue in euros. It will share the market with the International Development Association (IDA), which is preparing to kick off its 2020/21 funding year with a sustainable development benchmark of its own.
