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Spreads expected to remain ‘well anchored’ in coming weeks despite this week’s blip
◆ Issuer’s first public dollar deal since late 2021 ◆ New five, 10 and 30 year offered simultaneously ◆ Interest from European sovereigns grows for dollars
Bloc to price new five year and 20 year tap as Rome set to end dollar hiatus
A Kilt will pay a spread over Gilts it cannot justify on credit, which makes it a political gesture rather than a funding tool
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Nigeria has become the first government in Africa to issue a green bond, with a N10.69bn ($29m) five year issue led by Chapel Hill Denham, a local investment bank. -
Germany has announced its funding target for 2018, reducing its long term fixed-income target by €5bn from its 2017 number but aiming for a total, including short term instruments, of €183bn — up from €172bn in 2017.
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Public sector debt bankers and fellow debt management office heads have lined up to praise the impact on the Italian and wider European sovereign debt markets of Italy funding head Maria Cannata, who is retiring after nearly three decades at the country’s Treasury. While universally agreeing that she would be greatly missed both professionally and personally — including her sense of humour — there was also strong confidence that the team she has put in place will be able to meet all Italy’s future challenges.
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BNP Paribas has hired a new debt capital markets banker on to its green bond team.
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Moody’s published a cautious note on Tuesday in response to “business-friendly candidate” Cyril Ramaphosa’s slim victory in South Africa’s African National Congress (ANC) presidential elections on Monday. But the agency acknowledged that, if implemented, Ramaphosa’s reform priorities could “begin to address the weaknesses flagged” when the agency put South Africa on review for downgrade.
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Fitch Ratings upgraded Portugal's long-term currency issuer default rating on Friday, giving the country and its debt issuers a boost heading into the New Year.
