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An public sector issuer breaking a record with a deal this week became so common a claim it began to sound like, well, a broken record. But questions remain about how robust demand really is
Markets ‘not out of the woods yet’ as large sovereigns shorten execution process to de-risk issuance
Huge order book allowed the issuer to increase size of five year dollar trade
Issuer had already pre-funded in dollars earlier this year
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Land Saxony-Anhalt could follow Land Nordrhein-Westfalen’s lead and print more private placements in niche currencies this year, according to MTN bankers. Land NRW sold the first Brazilian real deal from a German sub-sovereign this week.
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German municipalities are increasingly issuing in the Kassenkredite format — short term credit lines governed by German law, according to analysts. But the issuers could soon be joined by international borrowers that want to benefit from the advantages the format has to offer.
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Land Nordrhein-Westfalen this week sold the first Brazilian real deal from a German sub-sovereign. The region, which notched up another new currency earlier this year when it debuted in New Zealand dollars, is keen to explore niche currency issuance to offer investors a pick-up in yield, according to MTN dealers.
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Finnish municipalities are mulling private placements and some issuers could debut in the market this year as demand for Finnish names increases, according to DCM bankers. They could follow City of Vantaa, which returned to the bond markets for the first time since 2009 this week.
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Ville de Namur has become the latest Belgian municipality to enter the capital markets, selling a pair of private placements on Friday. Other cities are poised to follow it, according to DCM bankers.
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Ever heavier hints by European Central Bank officials that they could bring quantitative easing to the eurozone to tackle deflation may have helped a pair of eurozone periphery sovereigns to hold yield-busting bond auctions this week — including Portugal’s first in three years. But if the central bank rules out buying government bonds as part of a QE programme, it could risk damaging the remarkable rally in periphery debt since the start of the year, analysts warned this week.
