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◆ Deal came after recent Ontario 10 year ◆ Ontario underperformed but still a key comp ◆ Some price sensitivity? No bother
◆ Another German issuer jumps into primary ◆ Orders rush in after pricing was fixed ◆ Does spread to KfW matter anymore?
◆ Aussie issuer returns after 2025 debut ◆ Asset managers like scarce international Australian risk ◆ Canadian names used to find fair value
Andreas Becker, head of treasury and pension fund for Land NRW, discusses borrowing strategy
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  • Giving cheap loans with few restrictions to local authorities via the Public Works Loan Board is not a suitable replacement for central government funding. This must change, or London Borough of Croydon will only be the first council to fall into insolvency.
  • Issuers are winding down their funding programmes before the end of the year and several smaller SSAs have turned to MTNs to complete the little they have left to do. The big deals of the week, however, came from corporates, with Volkswagen and Eurogrid coming in at opposite ends of the curve.
  • Rising coronavirus cases and circling uncertainty around the upcoming US election is driving the Swedish krona market towards higher rated, domestic names.
  • THE CITY of Lugano sold a bond that has pushed the Swiss franc curve out to its farthest point this week, locking in a coupon of 0.15% for 50 years, following a similar deal for Bern last month.
  • GlobalCapital has argued that it is not the ECB’s job to exclude individual borrowers’ bonds from its list of repo-eligible securities on environmental grounds, in response to our call for the Province of Alberta’s debt to be removed from its list of eligible marketable assets (EMA). We maintain that the ECB has plenty of justification to exclude this borrower.
  • An ESG think tank believes that the European Central Bank should drop Alberta’s euro bonds from its list of eligible marketable assets, as a punishment for its support for polluting industries. But while it is a laudable aim, it is not practicable.