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◆ Issuer leaves concession on the table to secure top accounts ◆ Pricing versus AFD deal ◆ Official institutions hold French agency spreads at the tights
◆ Sven Wabbels reveals four dimensions behind dual tranche call ◆ Seven year restraint as 1bp for four years more risk ◆ Pricing through Treasuries 'not a goal'
◆ Debut seven year priced through issuer's dollar curve, leads say ◆ Green label and no-grow size steady IFC through selloff ◆ Rival banker questions wisdom of July inaugural
◆ Steep government curve means investors need less spread on top ◆ French spreads widen, but AFD tightens ◆ Fair value 'a fluid concept' on inverted curve
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  • Sovereign, supranational and agency bond issuers are mobilising their resources to support the fight against Covid-19. The below table details the bonds they have issued, specifically in response to the coronavirus pandemic.
  • The New Development Bank was not able to claim a seat among the top supranational borrowers as it brought its debut dollar benchmark on Tuesday, pricing at a spread of over 30bp to the premium triple-A rated names, according to on-looking SSA bankers.
  • SSA
    Trading levels given are bid-side spreads versus mid-swaps and/or an underlying benchmark and bid-yields from the close of business on Monday, June 15. The source for secondary trading levels is ICE Data Services.
  • SRI
    Could capital market instruments help the world prepare for or react to another pandemic? Those who have spent the last few years designing these types of tools for natural disasters have some ideas.
  • The coronavirus pandemic has catapulted capital markets forward in time. Things thought impossible have come about — above all, a sustained flow of credit through a harsh economic downturn. But are the markets heading for utopia or dystopia?
  • As part of the Global Borrowers & Bond Investors Forum Virtual 2020, GlobalCapital hosted a panel in May to discuss how supranationals’ businesses are changing during this crisis. The Covid-19 pandemic has meant vastly increased demands on their lending. The supranationals have had to drastically alter their plans and strategies to help their clients in fighting the virus, and in mitigating the economic consequences of global lockdown. That has meant that many of the panellists’ institutions will be turning to the capital markets for larger sums than they had anticipated. Of course, as is the case for so many, they are having to do so without the traditional comforts and conveniences of an office infrastructure — although this has caused less disruption and inefficiency than might have been expected.