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The World Bank is planning to add fully digital cash settlement, multiple currencies and more nodes to its ‘bond–i’ platform, according to a banker involved in developing the blockchain system. Earlier this month, the supranational added tap functionality, as it raised A$50m ($33.7m) of capital.

The Province of Quebec slipped into the sterling market on Wednesday to print a fresh £250m December 2024 bond.

The UK Debt Management Office has announced that it is planning to reopen its 2054 Gilt through syndication in the week beginning September 9.

Volkswagen Financial Services printed a £300m 3.25 year bond on Thursday that was twice oversubscribed. It has not been long since the A3/BBB+ rated German carmaker came to the sterling market. Only last month it sold a £350m three year note.

The Asian Development Bank returned to the Kiwi dollar market to print its largest Kauri deal since January 2018 this week. With the Inter-American Development Bank and International Finance Corporation set to follow with a pair of taps in the coming days, bankers are expecting a busy few weeks in the market as investors react to the recent surprise interest rate cut from the Reserve Bank of New Zealand.

The World Bank is preparing to reopen its 'blockchain offered new debt instrument', or bond-i for short, as it looks to market the Australian dollar deal to a more international audience.

Lloyds Banking Group has returned to the Aussie dollar market for the first time since May 2018, offering investors the chance to invest in two tranches of senior debt at the operating company level. The issuer follows a wave of European and UK financial institutions making their way down under.

Guarantor: Federal Republic of Germany

Sterling is set to play a bigger part in the socially responsible bond market as a result of incoming reforms that are putting the pressure on UK pension funds to focus on environmental, social or governance (ESG) factors in their investments, writes Burhan Khadbai.

As core markets in the northern hemisphere begin to cool, SSA issuers are looking towards an Australian dollar sector unaffected by the summer close.

Investors brushed off the coronation of a new pro-Brexit prime minister in the UK on Tuesday to pile into a KfW trade and set a new size record for the sterling SSA green bond market.

KfW picked banks on Monday for its first green bond in sterling since July 2015, as it increases the volume of its green bonds under its new framework.