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The World Bank and the United Nations Children’s Fund (Unicef) have partnered up for a new privately placed deal to front-load funding to the agency — the first time the World Bank has partnered with a UN agency in this way. -
The Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank issued its second bond in Indian rupees via a private placement this week. Elsewhere, as rates rise, MTN dealers are finding attractive opportunities in other key Asian markets.
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A pair of sovereigns privately placed century bonds this week, with one of the borrowers — Ireland — dipping below the 1% point for the first time at this sort of tenor.
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Hamburger Hochbahn, a government owned public transport operator in Hamburg, is set to make its bond market debut this week, launching itself as a regular bond issuer.
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The Asian Development Bank brought a pair of new themed bonds to the market this week, printing its first gender bond in Kazakhstani tenge as well as its first education bond.
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The Asian Development Bank has sold its first ever education bond. The proceeds will go towards financing technical and vocational training for educators in the Asia Pacific region.
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Green commercial paper is taking off rapidly, propelled by issuers wanting to go green across the full financing spectrum and investors eager to put short-term cash to sustainable use. The market could grow as fast as green bonds have, and is attracting interest from new kinds of players, including government treasuries.
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SSA borrowers kept up a torrid pace of issuance in non-core currencies this week.
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KfW printed its first green bond in South African rand this week, reflecting the growth in demand for sustainable products outside of core currencies, according to a funding official at the agency.
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Finland’s Municipality Finance has had a busy week in the Norwegian krone market, as demand from domestic bank treasuries for high quality liquid assets (HQLA) drove a pair of floating rate notes in the currency.
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MTN issuance out of Asia and Sweden provided some of the week’s bright spots in what was otherwise a quiet start to the year. With the public market now in full swing, bankers expect the private placement market to get up to speed in the coming weeks.
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Amélie Darrort, co-head of the euro medium term note desk and head of French public sector debt capital markets at JP Morgan, will be relocating from London to Paris in the summer as part of a post-Brexit relocation, GlobalCapital understands.
