Rentenbank
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            Rentenbank will sell up to €4.8bn of benchmarks next year, the German agency said on Tuesday, as it announced its funding plans for 2017.
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            A pair of public sector borrowers hit screens this week for dollar syndications, providing an unexpectedly strong climax to 2016.
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            The Italian referendum on December 4 has been lurking in SSA bankers' diaries as a dangerous risk event but, on Tuesday, rumours of enhanced European Central Bank support led to a rally in Italian government paper.
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            Rentenbank sold what is likely to be its final benchmark of the year on Tuesday.
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            Rentenbank has announced that it will sell a five year dollar bond on Tuesday, winding up its 2016 funding programme and making the most of what a banker at one of the leads called “one of the last good windows of the year”.
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            Austria is looking to stretch its curve to hitherto untapped lengths, as it mulls a 70 year euro benchmark. Also seeking duration, Rentenbank pushed out its curve, printing a bond at 20 years for the first time ever.
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            This week's funding scorecard looks at the progress European supranationals and agencies have made with their funding programmes.
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            Euros had to play second fiddle to a rampant dollar market this week, but there was still a steady flow of deals at the smaller end of the size scale.
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            Rentenbank has opened the 10 year part of the dollar curve to elite borrowers with a heavily oversubscribed trade. While the public markets have been in rare health, dollar issuance had, until Wednesday, been confined to the three and five year maturities for months.The last time an SSA borrower printed over $1bn of 10 year paper was, according to Dealogic, at the end of May when the Inter-American Development Bank sold $1.5bn with a 2% coupon.
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            Two of this week's benchmark issuers are planning second trips to the capital markets for benchmark funding in the third quarter.