RBC Capital Markets

Sovereign issuers should take heart from the scale of demand for Canada’s tightly priced return to the dollar market, say DCM bankers. The country sold a tightly priced dollar benchmark on Thursday, and the success of the trade could help push forward issuance from other sovereigns.

The US investment grade corporate bond market sprang back to life this week as four big issuers hit the market in quick succession on Thursday, after multi-billion dollar deals from Novartis and Comcast earlier in the week.

More SSA issuers could look to the Kauri market after a World Bank deal this week drew strong demand from international investors and more than doubled in size.

The burgeoning green bond sector took two important strides this week, as the European Investment Bank increased an outstanding deal to the largest volume on record and the African Development Bank entered the Scandinavian capital markets for the first time with its second ever green bond.

The Canadian lender has ambitions to sit at the top table of European corporate finance, writes David Rothnie.