IFC

As core markets in the northern hemisphere begin to cool, SSA issuers are looking towards an Australian dollar sector unaffected by the summer close.

The International Finance Corporation is adding social bonds to its Impact Note programme, the supranational’s US retail bond channel that it launched in 2014.

As core markets in the northern hemisphere begin to cool, SSA issuers are looking towards a Kiwi and Aussie periphery unaffected by the summer close.

The International Finance Corp (IFC) started its 2019/20 funding year on Tuesday with a pair of Swedish krona green bond taps in the private market.

Bank Nederlandse Gemeenten printed ultra long paper this week, locking in low yields for the issuer but leaving buyers exposed to big price moves on any rate rise.

International Finance Corp has a funding capacity of up to $14bn for its upcoming financial year, which starts on July 1.

This week’s funding scorecard looks at the progress supranationals have made in their funding programmes as we hit the middle of June.

Kanagaroo bond market participants welcomed the prospect of ever lower rates in Australian dollars as four SSA borrowers priced taps over Tuesday and Wednesday.

The Netherlands Development Finance Company (FMO) on Wednesday printed a rare Honduran lempira linked-note. Meanwhile, the International Finance Corporation (IFC) has made its Cambodian riel debut.

The International Finance Corporation printed the first offshore Cambodian riel-linked note last week. The bond’s proceeds will go towards the creation of a local capital market in Cambodia and the expansion of local currency lending in the country.

Andrew Cross, deputy treasurer of the International Finance Corp, is set to join the Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank, GlobalCapital understands.

A series of modest taps at the long end of the Australian dollar curve at the end of last week suggests that what has been a quiet market for Kangaroo bonds could soon spark into life, according to SSA funding officials.