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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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Caisse d’Amortissement de la Dette Sociale has a €4bn funding programme lined up for 2020, matching the total it raised in 2019. -
An unusual note of optimism defines the attitude of Europe’s public sector issuers as they approach 2020. While many other markets are beset by fears of a slowdown in global growth, trade wars, and Brexit, SSA borrowers are confident in their borrowing strategies and loyal investor bases. Despite a change of face in the ECB’s top job, rates are still set to remain low for the foreseeable future. Accordingly, investors are having to grit their teeth to stomach the scanty yields on offer for euro SSA assets. Although SSAs are offering little in the way of yield, their place as pioneers of the evolving SRI market always ensures lively debate. In this roundtable, held in early November, market participants on both the buyside and the sell side favoured a more holistic assessment of issuers’ ESG profiles, rather than relying on labelled assets, but whether or not the ECB should take a role in promoting the SRI market through “green QE” divided the group.
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US food group General Mills sold €200m of short dated notes on Wednesday, in its first sole-led deal since 2017.
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The euro public sector bond market kicked off in style this week as investors put cash to work following a lack of supply in the fourth quarter of 2019, fuelling record book sizes and minimal concessions.
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The sterling bond market, usually buoyant enough at the start of a year, got a Brexit boost this week, allowing public sector borrowers and financial institutions to take full advantage. Investors piled into deals following greater clarity on the UK’s looming exit from the EU but before possible volatility around the January 31 departure date. Burhan Khadbai and David Freitas report.
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The public sector debt market has had a superb start to 2020, breaking records right and left in defiance of geopolitical tensions that, in previous years, would have scuppered the market as it left the dock, writes Lewis McLellan.
