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Bank Nederlandse Gemeenten has tapped its July 2028 Australian dollar bond, taking advantage of strong demand from Japanese investors in the long end of the Kangaroo curve. -
Nomura has hired veteran banker Guy Smith as head of DCM and acquisition and leveraged finance for Asia ex-Japan, effective Monday.
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SSAs enjoyed a fine week in the sterling market, raising a total of nearly £2bn as bankers pointed to several factors that could be driving demand.
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Public sector issuers rounded out a superlative week for dollars with sparkling results across the curve on Thursday. Bankers are confident that issuers wishing to print in the coming weeks should find that investor demand outweighs any of the political concerns that brought volatility to rates over the last few days.
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The Inter-American Development Bank provided further proof on Wednesday that there is deep demand at the five year part of the dollar curve — but another supranational is stepping up to test the long end of the currency for the first time this year.
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Nordic Investment Bank is looking to tap into what has been a bumper market for public sector sterling issuance in the early part of 2018, after hiring banks on Monday to run a December 2023 Reg S only benchmark.
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The sterling market had a healthy opening week in the public sector with three deals raising a combined £1.9bn, and there is plenty more in the pipeline, according to syndicate bankers.
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The dollar market has been thoroughly supportive of this week’s SSA borrowers, but none more so than Sweden, which pulled in its biggest order book ever for its first deal of 2018.
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Standard Chartered has brought a former banker at Citi out of retirement to run its Greater China and North Asian business.
