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Guillaume Pichard, assistant deputy minister, on the five year call, the repo boost and the cost versus home
◆ State’s pre-summer deal attracts €2bn book ◆ Maybe only one more deal to come on reduced needs ◆ 2bp NIP to start as issuer tries to ‘be fair to the market’
◆ Canadian province tests post-Starmer sterling ◆ Five year choice keeps the buyers ◆ New issue concession estimated
Nine banks chosen to run £1.5bn borrowing programme
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Undeterred by political risks, investors are moving back into emerging market currencies in an effort to combat the wafer thin or, in some cases, negative yields in core markets. Lewis McLellan reports.
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European agencies are enjoying new funding avenues, with more issuers planning to enter the green bond market this year while others are seeking to boost the nascent social bond market. Such diversity in sources is taking pain from other areas, however, with arbitrage opportunities limited in emerging market currencies.
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Thanks to negative yields in euros, the level of demand for new issuance at the shorter end of the SSA market in dollars has shocked even the most prolific borrowers. It’s not just been at the short end either — the World Bank and KfW generated a combined $14bn for their $5bn trades in May — prompting some to remark how mature the dollar market has become. Philip Moore reports.
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Supranational issuers have left a difficult start to the year firmly behind them, with funding opportunities now available in a range of tenors and currencies. A more benign interest rate outlook in the US compared with the start of the year, along with increased interest from the enormous US investor base, are opening up avenues in dollars. In euros, despite record low and in many cases negative yields, funding opportunities exist across much of the curve.
