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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
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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Fiji is set to become the third country to issue a sovereign green bond, with a F$100m ($50m) issue in Fiji dollars. The country, highly vulnerable to climate change, has just taken over as president of the COP meetings on climate change.
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The public sector debt market is providing high volumes of funding at astonishingly tight spreads as investors brush off political concerns and scramble to pick up what supply remains for 2017. However, central banks around the world are weighing on investors’ minds. -
The Republic of Egypt is planning to issue a euro denominated bond, its finance minister Amr El-Garhy told GlobalCapital at the IMF Annual Meetings in Washington DC. However, investors are not convinced the sovereign will be able to get the deal done.
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In recent years, the European Union has reformed in the teeth of a crisis. Banking Union was sketched out on the back of a napkin to help break the “sovereign-bank doom loop” which was threatening peripheral economies. The financing vehicles of the European Financial Stability Fund and then the European Stability Mechanism were called into being to rescue states whose finances were already weak.
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Investors are expecting a jumbo trade from the Qatari sovereign in the coming weeks, with money already shifting out of the borrower’s curve in preparation.
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Fitch took the knife to Gabon’s credit rating after market close on Friday, cutting the creditworthiness of the West African sovereign a notch to B at a time of increasing funding requirements for the country.
