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Weakness observed, but liquid issuers in defensive maturities with ‘good concession and a bit of yield’ have little to fear
‘Outstanding year’ of funding overall for the bank in across currencies, €800m left to fund until year-end
SEC exemption 'crucial' for IDA with spreads to World Bank and other tier one SSAs to converge over time
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Unédic priced through fair value for its first bond of the year on Wednesday, as the European Central Bank’s announcement of fresh liquidity supercharged an already red hot euro SSA market. African Development Bank will hope to find similar success in the 10 year part of the curve after mandating banks for its first benchmark of the year. -
Both Kommunalbanken (KBN) and the International Finance Corporation (IFC) came to the Kangaroo market this week. A need for long dated Australian dollar paper from Japanese investors drove the deals.
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The Republic of Ghana has picked banks for a bond deal and tender offer, preparing to become sub-Saharan Africa’s first sovereign issuer of the year. Benin is also believed to be eyeing a debut in the international bond market.
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Public sector bond investors are putting contingency plans in place for a no-deal Brexit, following the UK parliament’s overwhelming rejection of prime minister Theresa May’s revised withdrawal agreement on Tuesday evening.
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Conservative and liberal members of the European Parliament have voted down an ambitious draft of the bill to set up the EU’s Taxonomy of Sustainable Economic Activities, in favour of a weaker text with fewer safeguards for the environment and society.
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World Bank launched a $4.5bn five year trade on Tuesday in its first dollar benchmark of 2019, confounding some bankers who had expected this week to be populated with smaller transactions.
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