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◆ Eurofima made rare visit to euro four year conventional curve ◆ New issue premium estimated ◆ Region Wallonne grabs solid order book
Mandates from Eurofima, Germany, Wallonia and the Free State of Thuringia
The bloc's funding update and trio of central bank meetings held the SSA market's attention on Wednesday-Thursday
Jun Dumolard, head of funding and investor relations at EFSF, discusses the institution's recent euro seven year trade
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Market participants will be keeping a close eye on how a deal from the European Financial Stability Facility (EFSF) will proceed next week, as it could well re-open the euro supranational and agency bond market after issuers shied away from doing deals this week, amid volatile market conditions and an improved cross-currency basis swap for euro funders to issue in dollars. -
It was a mixed picture in the dollar public sector bond market on Thursday. A Norwegian agency was able to tighten the spread of its five year fixed rate trade on the back of a well subscribed order book. But a supranational was not able to achieve the same momentum for an intraday three year Sofr-linked floating rate note.
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A trio of South East Asian issuers have visited the Hong Kong dollar market in the last two weeks, as a move in the basis spurred demand. Among the issuers was Korea’s state-owned mining company Korea Resources Corporation (KORES), which made its debut in the currency and in the MTN format on Monday.
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Andrew Milligan, head of global strategy at Aberdeen Standard Investments for the past 19 years, will be stepping down and leaving the firm at the end of March.
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The World Bank has surprised onlookers with a five year benchmark bond, printed into the teeth of the volatility caused by Covid-19 and an emergency rate cut from the Federal Reserve. The successful deal from the supranational has emboldened an agency to follow suit, with others expected to follow.
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SSA bankers have urged the European Financial Stability Facility to head to the short end of the euro curve next week to complete its funding needs for the first quarter.
