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SSAs tap Swiss franc demand in thin summer market

Market expects pipeline to pick up in second week of August
Cracks emerge in underlying quality as banks appear to teeter further into cautiousness

UK water sector strives to avoid being sucked into Thames Water maelstrom

Thames's troubles are contained for now, but risk of contagion remains
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Political jitters pushed aside as Gilts are swept up in global bond sell-off

New prime minister and surprise chancellor jolted the Gilt market, but oil shooting above $100 shows where the real power lies
Cracks emerge in underlying quality as banks appear to teeter further into cautiousness
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  • Bank of China printed Asia’s first blue bond on Monday, with plans to use the roughly $940m raised to benefit ocean-related sustainability projects.
  • Bank of China has opened a new area of sustainable investing with Asia’s first blue bond. The excitement over the potential for sustainable ocean-related financing in the region is justified — but the market should temper its expectations.
  • Seven months after it visited European investors to market the idea, Mexico sold the first sovereign bond explicitly aligned to the United Nations’ Sustainable Development Goals (SDG) on Monday, saying it was the first step on the way to building an external yield curve of sustainable bonds.
  • US companies visited the euro bond market on Monday, with multi-tranche issues from drinks company Coca-Cola and real estate investment trust Digital Realty, which brought a rare floating rate note in euros.
  • French agency Cades will debut its social bond framework in dollars on Tuesday, less than a week after it raised the largest ever bond in the format with its inaugural issue in euros. It will share the market with the International Development Association (IDA), which is preparing to kick off its 2020/21 funding year with a sustainable development benchmark of its own.
  • Rentenbank is moving forward with its plans to issue a debut euro green benchmark bond following a series of investor meetings over the past few weeks.