French Sovereign
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Caisse d’Amortissement de la Dette Sociale (Cades), the French social security debt agency, is set to form a much closer working arrangement with Agence France Trésor, the French sovereign debt office, in an effort to reduce operational risk. -
Agence Française de Développement’s plans to change its banking license will lead to it selling more private placements, according to Bokar Cherif, the agency's head of treasury.
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The long end of euro government bond curves appear to have regained their health once more after a wobble last week when comments from European Central Bank president Mario Draghi were thought to signal that quantitative easing would end sooner than expected.
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The euro market showed its strength for SSA borrowers this week, as Agence Française de Développement succeeded in bringing a deal after requesting a change in its banking licence and KfW kept up its record of raising €5bn with every euro benchmark this year despite a volatile backdrop.
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Agence Française de Développement has passed its first capital markets test since asking for permission to change its banking licence, raising €1bn with a 15 year deal on Wednesday. The choice of tenor may have helped alleviate any immediate problems over its status switch, said a person close to the deal.
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Euro conditions are excellent for public sector borrowers, with Spain pulling in a nearly €30bn book for an €8bn 10 year — which bankers away from the trade said indicated a high presence of quality investors — and KfW raising €5bn after picking a seven year deal over a shorter tenor. Another pair of issuers are now looking to take advantage.
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Market participants are clamouring for sovereigns to join France and enter the green bond market. It would likely help the market, but would it help the environment?
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Calls are growing louder for sovereigns to pull their weight and assume a leading role in the development of the green bond market. But, as was demonstrated at panels in Euromoney’s Global Borrowers & Bond Investors Forum this week, many of them are reluctant to take up the SRI baton, write Lewis McLellan and Sharon Kimathi.
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Société de Financement Local (SFiL), a French agency, sold its inaugural dollar trade this week, issuing into an otherwise quiet market.
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Régie Autonome des Transports Parisiens (RATP), the Paris transport authority, printed its inaugural green bond on Thursday, selling a €500m no-grow into a thrice oversubscribed book and pulling the price in 5bp from guidance.
