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Revival in overseas demand for French SSA paper
Deal will bring fourth major multilateral development bank to the market
◆ Other options on table but issuer opts for two taps ◆ ‘Huge books’ now a norm for the issuer, clear NIP this time ◆ EU’s curve evolves to resemble that of EGB peers
◆ Tightest level since IFC's three year print ◆ Investors recycle redemptions ◆ Programmatic and pragmatic approach
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Market participants will embark in the coming weeks on the difficult task of working out how to use the European Union’s sustainable finance Taxonomy, after the first criteria were published this week. In doing so, they will be conscious that the smooth tide of green finance is now breaking against the hard reality of power politics and resistance by fossil fuel industries — a clash that is rocking the Taxonomy’s credibility, writes Jon Hay. -
The European Commission has torn up the standard SSA fee structure, pushing through its own lower syndication fees for deals under the €800bn Next Generation EU funding programme. The controversial move comes as the borrower opens applications for primary dealerships. Lewis McLellan reports.
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The long-running debate in the European Union about how to optimise its development finance effort and strengthen its role in sub-Saharan Africa is tending towards the most basic of the possible options: closer collaboration between the European Investment Bank and the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development.
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Bpifrance will be holding calls with investors next week to introduce its new green bond framework ahead of a debut deal in the format with the proceeds to be focused on renewable energy projects.
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At the press conference following the European Central Bank’s Governing Council meeting on Thursday, Christine Lagarde, the president of the ECB, said it was too early to consider gradually winding down the Pandemic Emergency Purchase Programme.
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Kenneth Lay, chair of the International Finance Facility for Immunisation (IFFIm), is no stranger to using financial innovation to help tackle some of the world's biggest problems. He spoke to GlobalCapital about the importance of IFFIm as a vehicle to finance the global vaccine rollout in the fight against the coronavirus pandemic.
