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Portugal and KfW lead euro supply with five year as dollar market focuses on second AfDB hybrid
◆ Tightest 10 year Länder bond this year ◆ Big book leads to 4bp spread move ◆ Deal still three times covered, green element was key
◆ One deal was judged ‘relatively tight’... ◆ And the other ‘definitely cheap’... ◆ ... though fair value tough to spot
Issuance recovers from last week’s wobble but concerns linger after issuers like KfW widen
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Madrid mandated banks for a euro deal on Tuesday, with SSA bankers confident that Greece’s discussions with creditors will not impact other eurozone periphery borrowers. -
There were potential signs of contagion to the rest of the eurozone periphery from the protracted discussions between Greece and its creditors this week.
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North Rhine-Westphalia is set to become the first German state and one of a handful of European sub-sovereign borrowers to enter the green bond market, after mandating banks on Wednesday to roadshow for its inaugural deal in the format.
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A pair of French sub-sovereigns have printed medium term notes over the past week and more are expected to follow as they approve their budgets for 2015. Despite the upcoming capital markets debut from France’s answer to Municipality Finance, Agence France Locale, issuance from France’s local authorities is set to continue and even grow, according to MTN bankers.
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A new UK municipal bond agency’s plans to reduce its members’ cost of funding versus Gilts will hang on its credit rating spread to the UK government, SSA bankers said on Monday. A new UK sub-sovereign issuer — the Scottish government — is likely to attain pricing similar to the new agency, said bankers. Elsewhere in sterling, Bank Nederlandse Gemeenten tapped its December 2018s for £50m.
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Eurozone sovereign issuers lined up to take advantage of the quantitative easing driven flattening of the euro curve on Monday, as one country the periphery mandated banks for a 30 year benchmark and another set most of its target range for an auction later this week at the long end of the curve.
