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• IDA to add bills to funding mix, non-core currency benchmark or MTNs up next

  

  The International Development Association is preparing a short-term borrowing programme that the issuer told GlobalCapital will be similar in form to the commercial paper offerings of its peers the European Investment Bank and KfW. A second benchmark — likely to be in sterling or a niche currency — or a debut private medium-term note could follow, the borrower added.

  • 12 Feb 2019

• Spanish regions set for bond market return

  

  GlobalCapital understands that the Spanish government has approved requests from the Balearic Islands and Castile and Leon to issue new debt. More approvals could follow “in the next few weeks” for the Basque Country and Galicia, according to a DCM banker based in Madrid.

  • 06 Feb 2019

• Natixis reshuffles MTNs as Martin changes position

  

  Natixis has made some internal changes to its MTN team, after the desk’s global head Elsa Martin took on a new position within the bank.

  • 29 Jan 2019

• BNG finds Aussie demand in MTN market

  

  Investors were keeping cash from the private debt markets this week, though borrowers that have a definite issuance plan have been able to continue with their strategies.

  • 24 Jan 2019

• AFD ups benchmark sizes, looks to MTNs

  

  Agence Française de Développement (AFD) this week sold its largest ever benchmark as it tackled an increased funding programme that will grow further in the next few years. That means the issuer will look to bring big trades again — as well as potentially growing its presence in the privately placed MTN market.

  • 17 Jan 2019

• FMS-W plots Sofr-linked ABCP

  

  FMS Wertmanagement is planning to issue its first Sofr-linked issue in 2019, which will be sold to the money markets in the form of asset-backed commercial paper.

  • 08 Jan 2019

• Santander adds to MTN team

  

  Santander has picked up an ex-Deutsche Bank private debt banker for its MTN syndicate desk.

  • 13 Dec 2018

• EU eyes PP return in 2019

  

  The European Union will look to return to the private placement market for the first time since July 2017 to kick-off its funding programme next year.

  • 06 Dec 2018

• Dhami returns to market as Rabo syndicate boss

  Harman Dhami has joined Rabobank as head of DCM syndicate, succeeding Paul Vanner, who, after a sabbatical, will return to Rabo to further develop the bank's MTN platform.

  • 03 Dec 2018

• MTN dealers ‘hopeful rather than optimistic’ about January

  

  MTN dealers are “hopeful rather than optimistic” that in January issuers will avoid what they said had been a trend in 2018 of waiting for market conditions to improve before bringing deals, then shelving trades as conditions worsen.

  • 22 Nov 2018

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