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Supplying a ‘diversity of instruments’ is important for sovereign to meet needs of different investors, says DMO chief
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Sovereign issuer overcomes challenges to revive public dollar presence after half a decade’s silence
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  • After a subdued year, Korean borrowers are gearing up for a busy 2016 buoyed by a credit rating boost from Standard & Poor’s, which made the country fully double A for the first time in its history. But will issuers be able to capture the lower yields they crave in the face of mounting global macro-economic pressures? Narae Kim finds out.
  • Markets divisions at investment banks have ruled the roost for years now, but their world is being turned upside down. Soon, nothing will be what it seems anymore.
  • The South Korean government became the first sovereign credit to price a Panda bond on December 15. The country raised Rmb3bn ($467m) from the three year, which saw at least one offshore investor participating, sources close to the deal told GlobalCapital Asia’s sister publication, GlobalRMB.
  • CEE
    With SSA investors increasingly muscling in on CEE bonds, a small number of banks have transferred execution for these sovereigns to their SSA syndicates. But a GlobalCapital poll showed that most banks have not yet done so and may not for some time, despite their spreads, already converging with the SSA market, having been shoved closer still by European quantitative easing.
  • Deutsche Bank has firmly denied that its removal from the Belgian Debt Agency’s list of primary dealers has any wider implications for its public sector debt business — but the move has left rival bankers fretting about the health of the sector.
  • China’s Panda bond market is gaining plenty of traction with Standard Chartered becoming the third foreign bank to sell notes in the onshore renminbi market this year. And with a pair of sovereign issuers eager to launch their deals, the asset class is set to soon eclipse dim sum bonds, writes Rev Hui.