Top Section/Ad
Top Section/Ad
Most recent
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
More articles/Ad
More articles/Ad
More articles
-
-
Investors flocked to Quebec’s first dollar benchmark in nearly two years this week. Although the province had intended to issue $1bn, the scale of the demand enabled it to print its largest ever deal in the currency.
-
By Bjarni Benediktsson, Minister of Finance and Economic Affairs
-
By any stretch of the imagination, Iceland’s economic recovery has been impressive. The big challenge now will be to make sure this post-crisis era of growth is sustainable.
-
Már Guðmundsson was appointed governor of Sedlabanki Islands (Iceland’s central bank) from August 2009, and was recently invited to serve a second five year term at the helm. In this interview with GlobalCapital, Guðmundsson shares his views on the challenges that are likely to arise over that period.
-
Five years ago, if you asked a bond fund manager about ethical investing, the answer might have been ‘oh, that’s for the equity people’. You would not hear that today. Market forums on integrating environmental, social and governance analysis into bond investing are proliferating. As Craig McGlashan reports, it is leading to a much richer dialogue between investors and issuers — and to the growth of a whole new bond market.