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  • Bank of Nova Scotia issued its first dollar covered bond benchmark since 2016 on Wednesday. The deal follows a series of retained Canadian dollar covered bonds that were pledged to the Bank of Canada after it recently broadened repo eligibility to include the asset class.
  • After discussions with the Bank of England and the Sterling Risk-Free Reference Rates Working Group over the impact of Covid-19 on companies’ plans to transition from Libor, the UK’s Financial Conduct Authority said on Wednesday that the final deadline of the end of 2021 was immutable.
  • Riskier high grade corporate names saw more than €45bn of combined demand for new bonds on Wednesday. Danaher, Carrefour, Bertelsmann, Philips and Heineken were all in the market following a batch of deals from higher rated names a day earlier encourages borrowers to pile in.
  • Chinese real estate developer Xinhu Zhongbao Co sold a club-style dollar bond on Tuesday, becoming one of the few Asian issuers to have come to the market in recent days. While a pipeline of deals builds up, many are unwilling to launch transactions amid the volatility.
  • Mauricio Cárdenas, Colombia’s finance minister in 2012-18, has told GlobalCapital that emerging market nations would struggle to raise the financing required to fund measures to treat the Covid-19 pandemic and consequent economic slump. “Difficult years are coming” for EM, warned the former official.
  • Development lender the Central American Bank for Economic Integration (Cabei) raised $170m-equivalent of three year money on Tuesday after heading to the Mexican bond market, where investors see the bank as a haven credit, the bank’s CFO told GlobalCapital.