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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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  • The Netherlands Development Finance Company (FMO) sold the first offshore Bolivian boliviano bond last Friday. The currency-linked bond was structured by the Currency Exchange Fund (TCX), of which FMO is a part owner, and is part of a wider push to develop frontier capital markets.
  • Nederlandse Waterschapsbank has selected banks for a €500m 15 year no-grow water bond, in what will be its longest ever maturity for a green bond.
  • The City of Gothenburg plans to up its green bond issuance to two a year as part of Nordic public issuers’ wider push in the format. The Swedish municipality made its first visit to the green bond market this year on Tuesday, using its new green bond framework.
  • L-Bank issued the first ever floating rate note linked to €STR on Thursday, ahead of the European Central Bank’s publication of the recommended new euro risk-free rate on October 2. While it has been beaten in the race to do the first deal, the European Investment Bank has announced plans for what could be the first benchmark sized transaction in the format.
  • Dollar SSA issuers faced huge volatility this week as the US Federal Reserve cut interest rates and unexpectedly pumped billions into the repo market, with two more issuers lining up to test investors’ mettle.
  • Former Deutsche Bank DCM head Miles Millard has joined ING as head of global capital markets Leo-Hendrik Greve left the job in September last year, and has now landed at boutique Bowline Capital Partners.
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