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◆ First of seven syndications breaks multiple records ◆ Investor engagement and communications helped stable execution ◆ Smaller programme this year but ‘still a lot’ to tackle
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Busy and ‘euro-heavy’ week ahead but dollar pipeline also building with issuers set to bring forward bond plans
◆ Minimal premium paid ◆ Size at top of range ◆ Issuer seizes upon stability
◆ 'Cautious' start say some market participants ◆ New issue premium debated ◆ Price and size praised by rivals
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  • The Government of Sri Lanka has invited banks to pitch for the lead arranger role for a ¥60bn ($561m) Japanese yen-denominated international bond. The deadline for submissions is next Friday.
  • Dollar bond investors have shrugged off Fitch’s downgrade to the foreign currency rating of Hong Kong SAR, with local issuers also gearing up for new deals.
  • This week's funding scorecard looks at the progress European sovereigns have made in their funding programmes as we enter September.
  • Christine Lagarde has given a strong hint she will persist with the European Central Bank’s highly accommodative monetary policy if she takes over as its president in November. Lagarde also suggested the ECB would move to make its portfolio more green.
  • SSA
    The SSA primary bond market is eerily quiet. What is usually one of the busiest times of the year for raising bonds in euros is proving to be the opposite as issuers sit it out in anticipation of next week’s highly anticipated monetary policy announcement by the European Central Bank (ECB). Burhan Khadbai reports.
  • Inflation-linked Gilts suffered a steep sell-off in the secondary market on Wednesday as investors priced in proposed changes to the methodology of the Retail Price Index (RPI).