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Primary market for public sector unlikely to see large transactions until after Easter, reckon bankers
Market participants pray for no negative news overnight in hope of ‘pre-Easter wave of issuance’
Two day executions expose dollar issuers to market volatility
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Italy returned to the private placement market to print one of the year’s largest MTNs on Thursday. The deal stood out this week, since issuance in the market has started to wind down ahead of Christmas. -
UK government borrowing is rocketing, with the country intending to borrow £485.5bn in its 2020/21 financial year. This has already pushed up its debt to GDP ratio over 100%, but the announcement of next quarter’s £92bn remit caused scarcely a ripple in the Gilts market on Wednesday. Market participants believe that any problems of debt sustainability or spiralling inflation are too distant a prospect to trouble them, writes Lewis McLellan.
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The UK government said that it will not compensate holders of index-linked Gilts following the reform of the Retail Price Index (RPI) measure of inflation, which is expected to be enacted no earlier than 2030.
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The UK Debt Management Office provided an update to its funding programme following the Spending Review and the Office for Budget Responsibility’s Economic and Fiscal Outlook on Wednesday.
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The Kingdom of Thailand raised Bt20bn ($659.5m) from a syndicated bond on Tuesday, tapping its 15 year sustainable deal.
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Bond Origination Technologies (Bots), a new tech company that aims to automate pricing indications in the primary debt capital markets, has completed an initial fundraising round and formed an advisory board ahead of a launch next year. GlobalCapital spoke to the founders to find out more about the product.
