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SNCF Réseau on Wednesday printed at the upper end of its size expectations with its second ever green bond, while the International Finance Corporation looked at the possibility of printing in the green format over the next three months.

With public sector borrowers having reached advanced stages in their annual funding programmes as the first quarter comes to a close, focus is shifting to socially responsible bonds.

The socially responsible bond pipeline ballooned on Tuesday, with a European supranational announcing a roadshow for a debut issue, a French agency mandating for a deal and a Washington supranational pricing a social bond in benchmark size for the first time.

A pair of public sector borrowers are set to bring socially responsible bonds this week, with one aiming at the dollar short end and the other at the long end of the euro curve.

This week's scorecard looks at the progress supranationals have made with their funding programmes this year.

SSA bankers are gearing themselves up for another round of dollar supply next week after the currency’s record breaking January. Buoyant conditions even allowed one issuer to bring a bulky benchmark, despite this week’s public holidays in Asia.

This week's funding scorecard looks at the funding progress supranationals have made in their funding progress by the end of January.

The MTN market is rapidly making up for a sedate start to the year with a flurry of niche currency trades, including the world’s first bond in Myanmar kyats.

Origin, an electronic platform for private placement issuance, went live on Monday, with six investment banks and more than 20 borrowers having access to the beta version.

As a year where political upsets became the norm drew to a close, GlobalCapital picks the standout trades from a turbulent 2016.

Two supranational borrowers have accessed capital markets for niche currency private placements in the past week, as investors spy possible re-entry points in currencies that have suffered throughout 2016.

Shares in MedLife, Romania’s largest private healthcare provider, gained 3% on Wednesday after it completed the first Romanian IPO since June 2014.