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Read on to see how far selected supranationals have progressed with their funding for the year.

The African Development Bank was unable to tighten pricing from guidance on its first benchmark of the year on Wednesday, which bankers away from the deal put down to a difficult market backdrop.

The SSA market has seen a steady stream of activity across the euro and dollar markets this week. The European Stability Mechanism priced the week’s biggest deal on Tuesday, printing €4bn in 10 and 40 year tenors. Meanwhile African Development Bank led the charge in dollars, preparing to print a $1bn no-grow in its first benchmark deal of the year.

The African Development Bank is set to bring its first benchmark of 2016 in what is proving to be a quiet week for dollar deals.

KfW this week printed its widest five year KfW dollar benchmark since 2009 as negative swap spreads took their toll on pricing despite an improving macroeconomic backdrop.

Nordic Investment Bank has printed the second dollar benchmark from an SSA this week, as issuers contend with the effects on pricing of negative swap spreads.

Nordic Investment Bank is preparing a three year dollar benchmark, following a KfW five year deal that had to brave a backdrop of negative swap spreads.

This week's scorecard looks at the funding progress of supranationals so far in 2016.

The Nordic Investment Bank added to a busy week in sterling on Friday by printing a £200m March 2019 bond.

A storming start to the supranational and agency sterling market showed no signs of abating this week as issuance volume reached a record year-to-date high — and another issuer lined up a deal for Friday.

MTN investors are speculating that the huge yield available on Argentine peso bonds may be worth the risk of buying bonds denominated in a currency which is undergoing official devaluation.

MTN investors are speculating that the huge yield on Argentine peso bonds may be worth the risk.