Germany

Two agencies were out with dollar mandates on Monday and more public sector borrowers could follow with deals this week as a rise in US Treasury yields boosts demand for SSA dollar bonds.

Germany’s CureVac has gone public on the Nasdaq, joining the army of biotech companies that have tapped the equity capital markets for cash during the pandemic, despite growing concern of a brewing dot-com style bubble.

VC Trade, a digital platform in the Schuldschein market, has begun promoting secondary trading on its system, with an eye of scaling up into Europe’s loan markets.

Overcollateralisation (OC) levels have increased on covered bond pools since last year for European issuers, Fitch Ratings said this week. But while issuers in some countries, like the UK, showed a rise above the average, borrowers that have participated in central bank funding, like those in Germany, have managed to keep OC levels down.

BMW Finance, a subsidiary of German carmaker BMW, sealed a Rmb500m ($72m) three year dim sum bond on Thursday. It was the first publicly sold offshore renminbi trade by a corporation since November last year.

A pair of German sub-sovereigns had the primary public sector bond market to themselves this week, with each taking €500m at tight levels to their secondary curves.

The State of Lower Saxony was the sole borrower active in the primary public sector bond market on Thursday as it raised €500m with a 10 year at a negative yield. The deal ended up comfortably subscribed in spite of a slow start to the book-build.

The State of Lower Saxony mandated banks on Wednesday to run a 10 year euro benchmark on Thursday, as German states remain the only action in the public sector primary market.

The State of Brandenburg got over the line with a fully subscribed order book and a yield inside its curve on Tuesday, successfully avoiding the fate that its compatriot Berlin met at the tenor last week.

The State of Brandenburg will keep the primary euro public sector bond market ticking on Tuesday after mandating banks for a new 20 year bond for which it hopes to achieve a better outcome than Berlin's deal at the tenor last week.

Erste Abwicklungsanstalt (EAA) is considering a return to the euro market in the fourth quarter to complete its funding programme.

The European Financial Stability Facility finished its €5bn Q3 funding programme on Wednesday with a €1bn tap of an October 2026 line in an auction. The European Investment Bank was also in the market on Thursday adding to a Climate Awareness Bond.