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New EU deal and year's final sovereign syndications move into focus amid continued yield sell-offs
‘Very important transaction’ for the DMO in meeting investor needs where they are, says debt chief
Month-end buying from investors in secondary market to determine backdrop for next wave of issuance
‘Pragmatic’ approach from borrowers set to benefit upcoming wall of issuance
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Building a UK green government bond market would take a minimum issuance of about £30bn and “some time” for the UK to establish a benchmark size for the market, according to the head of the UK Debt Management Office. -
Finland has cut the number of its solicited credit ratings from three to two after removing Moody’s, leaving the sovereign with scores from Fitch and S&P Global.
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Government debt management offices are facing a new experience: bond investors enquiring about their countries’ environmental, social and governance attributes.
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The Republic of the Philippines sold its largest international bond in more than a decade this week, raising $2.75bn from a deal that received strong support from investors confident about the country’s control of Covid, and its outlook. It even managed to get away with a record low coupon on one of the tranches.
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In calls with the UK Debt Management Office on Monday, the majority of Gilt-edged Market Makers (GEMMs) and some Gilt investors called for the UK to launch a new conventional bond maturing in either 2046 or 2051 via syndication next month.
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The Riksbank, Sweden’s central bank, is adding a “negative screening” process to its purchases of corporate bonds under its quantitative easing programme, meaning it will no longer buy the bonds of the most polluting companies.
