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New EU deal and year's final sovereign syndications move into focus amid continued yield sell-offs
New label and attractive relative value of French agency paper allow large spread tightening
Issuer now 80% funded for the year, keeps eyes open for opportunities across currencies

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  • KfW has announced a smaller borrowing programme for next year, joining a number of other public sector borrowers also set to borrow less in 2020.
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    On Wednesday, just as the European Commission launched its European Green Deal to move Europe to a carbon-neutral and environmentally friendly future, France led a revolt against the Taxonomy which was the centrepiece of the EC's Sustainable Finance Action Plan.
  • German banks have completed the first Schuldschein issue with an independent counterparty on the new Finledger blockchain platform. The entire transaction happened on a paperless basis.
  • BlackRock is bearish on the prospects of the government bond market in 2020, thanks to the exhaustion of monetary policy as a means of generating growth. Instead, the world’s largest asset manager is looking to move deeper into riskier assets such as emerging markets where there is still room for further easing.
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    The European Commission launched its European Green Deal on Wednesday, calling for “massive public investment” to tackle climate and environmental challenges which it calls “this generation’s defining task”.
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