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ASN Bank compresses funding cost with second EuGB

◆ ASN's tightest senior bond since 2021 ◆ Dutch lender becomes only the second FIG borrower to have issued more than one European Green Bond ◆ Deal comes hours before 'massive rally' ensues from opening of Strait of Hormuz
◆ Issuer’s first EuGB hybrid 10 times covered at peak ◆ Tight senior/sub spreads attractive for issuers... ◆ ...while solid yields entice investors

Returning Hypo Noe benefits from having euro FIG market on its own

◆ Austrian lender's first bond issue of the year ◆ Achieves investor diversification beyond core buyers in DACH, says lead ◆ Moves pricing more than most of its past senior trades

AIIB's 'trade of the day' breaks dollar spread record

◆ Bond tightens in grey market after record Treasury level ◆ Goldilocks scenario drew investors ◆ Canadian SSAs back in dollars
◆ Issuer’s first EuGB hybrid 10 times covered at peak ◆ Tight senior/sub spreads attractive for issuers... ◆ ...while solid yields entice investors
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  • While leading economists fret about a reckoning to come for emerging market debt in the wake of the coronavirus pandemic, for vast swathes of EM issuers bond market business is brisk. Despite dire data and forecasts, dollar funding costs for some sovereigns are nearing pre-crisis levels as investors grasp at any sort of yield. The rally may have further to run, write Ross Lancaster and Oliver West.
  • Financial market participants have watched in disbelief this week as asset prices have kept rising, while US cities burn, unemployment breaks records, a global depression becomes more likely and the coronavirus pandemic still rages.
  • Programmes to cut the debts owed to official and private creditors would deliver much-needed financial assistance to emerging markets hit by the Covid-19 pandemic, according to a report by leading economists.