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◆ Two-day execution gains outweigh volatility risk ◆ Buffer built into price guidance ◆ Callable book closed two days after monthly reopening
At London investor day, supranational reveals deals and plans for new funding and investments, including fully African project financing
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The World Bank made a rare trip to the long end of the dollar curve on Thursday, reopening a 2031 line linked to the Secured Overnight Financing Rate (Sofr). -
The European Central Bank adjusted its forward guidance on interest rates following its meeting on Thursday to bring it in line with its new symmetric inflation target, but the change was not unanimously approved by all governing council members.
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Pubic sector bond market participants are eagerly anticipating Thursday’s European Central Bank governing council meeting in which the ECB is expected to make a series of changes to align its policy to its new strategy.
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World Bank has raised $185m in a catastrophe bond to provide financial protection to Jamaica from the economic damage of tropical storms for the next three years. It is among the first cat bonds to be linked to the Secured Overnight Financing Rate.
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The SSA bond market is playing host to three SRI labelled deals in euros this week, with no conventional debt slated for issuance at all so far.
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The European Commission rounded off its pre-summer funding with a dual tranche outing this week. Despite the huge size raised, the execution was remarkably smooth, as is becoming a signature for the EU. But while the EU’s credentials as one of the top SSA issuers are beyond doubt, questions remain as to whether it is a supranational, or a quasi-sovereign issuer of eurozone safe assets.
