French Sovereign
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French agency Société de Financement Local (SFiL) raised $1bn with its first ever dollar bond on Wednesday, while the German State of North Rhein-Westphalia pushed out its curve to 2048. -
Régie Autonome des Transports Parisiens (RATP), the Paris transport authority, is coming to market for a 10 year green bond on Thursday.
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Bank Nederlandse Gemeenten slam-dunked a single day euro execution on Monday into a market buzzing from a pair of eurozone election results over the weekend. Another two issuers have lined up euro deals — including one debut.
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The scores have been counted and the results for the benchmarks sold in the week commencing May 29 are in. The week produced only a smattering of public sector trades trades, and not all were warmly received.
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Eurozone issuers crammed into the euro market on Wednesday ahead of a European Central Bank meeting.
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The UK Debt Management Office (DMO) is keeping its options open on a planned syndication for September, as Gilt yields fell following polls showing the opposition Labour Party was gaining ground on the ruling Conservatives ahead of next week’s UK general election.
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Caisse des Dépôts et Consignations (CDC) sold its largest ever sterling bond on Thursday, raising £300m with a three year deal.
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The UK Debt Management Office is keeping its options open on a planned syndication for September, a deal some investors feel the sovereign should use to push its conventional curve out to 2072. Meanwhile, a French agency is bringing its first syndication in sterling for over two years.
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The relief rally sparked by Emmanuel Macron's victory in the French presidential election is yet to fully evaporate and the Europe's public sector borrowers have been taking full advantage of it. Read on to see how GC BondMarker voters rated France's return to capital markets as well as the rest of the benchmarks.
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Caisse des Dépôts et Consignations looks likely to be the latest public sector borrower to return to the sterling market after a long absence, after it hired banks to hold investor meetings next week.
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This week's funding scorecard looks at the progress French agencies have made in their funding programmes this year.
