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A sudden dip in the volume of €STR transactions and the number of banks submitting data has led to market participants voicing concerns about the rate. -
A technical issue around data submission meant that the euro area short term rate (€STR) did not have enough data to be calculated in the usual way on Tuesday morning, forcing the ECB to use its contingency method.
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MTN platform Origin has released its documentation automation facility to a subset of Origin Marketplace users comprising 11 banks and 16 issuers.
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The technical issue that led to the ECB being forced to use its contingency computation method to set €STR on Tuesday has been fixed, and the benchmark is once more functioning normally.
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A technical issue around the data submission meant that the euro area short term rate (€STR) did not have enough data to be calculated in the usual way this morning, forcing the ECB to use its contingency method.
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Although the MTN market contracted during the first half of 2020, structured issuance rose. The bulk of the increase came in the form of notes with calls added to enhance yield.
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Issuers have been flocking to the market with coronavirus response bonds, but only a few have sold MTNs with the same theme. That is changing however, and IDB Invest, the private sector investment arm of the Inter-American Development Bank is likely to be next.
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TD Securities has appointed Matthew Jaconelli to head up its MTN and niche currency operations in Europe, taking over from Sameer Rehman, who will now focus on financial and corporate issuance.
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Euro investors are sniffing around further out along the SSA curve, with Euratom returning after a two year absence to print a 10 year bond earmarked to fund power plant safety measures in Ukraine, while the Treasury Corp of Victoria tapped demand past the 30 year point.
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The International Finance Facility for Immunisation (IFFIm) was set up in 2006 to provide funding to Gavi, the Vaccine Alliance, itself a public/private sector partnership, to expedite the vaccination of children in the poorest countries against endemic infectious diseases. Doris Herrera-Pol, IFFIm board member and former director of global capital markets at the World Bank, spoke to GlobalCapital about the role the capital markets can play in the development and deployment of a Covid-19 vaccine.
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The MTN market expects a busy summer in Asia as investors look to make up for time lost to the coronavirus pandemic at the start of the year. In Europe, things are starting to slow down, however, there are signs that the credit market could open up over the coming weeks.
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The Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank is considering increasing its 2020 funding programme to meet the high demand for its coronavirus response package. That could lead to the Beijing-based supranational launching a Kangaroo bond programme in the coming weeks and to it making a return to the dollar market later this year.
