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◆ No book update for €500m no-grow deal ◆ Surprising lack of demand for defensive trade ◆ Investors continue to cherry pick in big week for supply
◆ Spread to Land Hessen key to pricing ◆ Leads thought long and hard on whether to tighten ◆ 1bp move the right amount as book grew
◆ Three German states brought a new Joint Länder bond ◆ No book update, KfW curve guides pricing ◆ Flemish Community prints new 15 year
Second digital project won’t be the issuer’s last, Länder peers may be ‘interested and willing’ to join in
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If 2013 was the breakthrough year for green bonds, then 2014 is very much when they are becoming part of the mainstream. Volume is already more than double 2013’s figure, while new borrowers are joining the market and ever more sophisticated approaches are being taken to issuance. Craig McGlashan reports.
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Supranational and agency borrowers have been the most important drivers of the green bond movement. Fostering that market until it reaches maturity is still a big part of their plans, but as Jonathan Breen reports, many issuers are also making big efforts to bring bonds focused on social and educational issues to the mainstream.
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Supranational borrowers gave birth to the sustainable bond market, but as it reaches adolescence supras risk being overshadowed by corporate borrowers printing big deals and stealing all the glory.
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Cities and municipalities should be one of the most exciting areas of sustainable and responsible capital markets, but origination bankers have their work cut out if they want any but the most obvious candidates to come forward. Tessa Wilkie reports.
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Iceland made a highly successful return to the euro market in July, printing a healthily oversubscribed €750m six year issue which will act as an important benchmark for Icelandic banks and companies looking to access the international capital market.
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Capital controls have done their job. Now the challenge is to dismantle them without prompting a catastrophic flood of outflows and hurting the economy that they helped so effectively to protect.