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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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Several cities in Land Nordrhein-Westfalen banded together to sell one of the first joint deals from German cities on Thursday. The deal appealed to domestic and international investors and could inspire other cities in the country to access the public debt markets.
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A collection of German cities is set to price the first joint bond from cities in the country later this week. The trade follows one in the same maturity from KfW on Wednesday.
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Spain brushed off the threat of contagion from Latin American volatility this week as two of its sub-sovereigns harnessed investors’ fierce appetite for peripheral debt with record-sized deals at close to pre-crisis pricing, writes Craig McGlashan. Madrid and Aragon’s home runs paved the way for more now that the Tesoro has again tightened the spread over the sovereign at which the regions may print.
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With a spectacular January in the public markets behind them and much of the new year’s liquidity safely tucked away in some juicy deals, the smartest SSAs will dust off their medium term note programmes and start weighing up their private placement options. And — with investors sniffing around for anything with a whiff of yield — there are a multitude of opportunities for the issuers to push out their average maturities.
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A pair of French regional issuers could soon join a German sub-sovereign in selling long-dated private placements in yen. Japanese investors are coming late to the party as the regions have already begun to extend their maturities.
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The Community of Aragon made it a triple whammy for Spanish issuers over the past fortnight as the issuer printed its largest ever bond on Thursday, matching similar records for Madrid and the Spanish sovereign.