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Green investors buy when everyone else stops, giving issuers one last pricing lever — perhaps to cross a line none of them wants to reach
◆ Scaled-back bank treasuries snap up rare seven year floater ◆ Dollar FRN drought eases as World Bank extends curve ◆ Floater lands inside fixed rate funding levels
◆ New sterling five year lands after BoE Level B upgrade ◆ Dollar FRN 'snowball' as $2bn raised ◆ Callable issuance steady as zero structures cool
◆ EDC prints tightest US dollar deal from a Canadian this year ◆ Tight spread to US Treasuries 'looks good for Canada risk' ◆ World Bank mandates seven year dollar floater
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Sterling issuance may be slowing down after its record start to the year, but investor demand shows no signs of cooling — as KfW proved with a tap on Monday that was nearly double its original target size. Any “bank treasury friendly” borrowers should find healthy demand if they follow in the currency, said bankers. -
The European Stability Mechanism on Monday took care of all its first quarter funding needs in one fell swoop, drawing a heavily oversubscribed book with high Asian demand that allowed 2bp of price tightening. On-looking SSA bankers said the deal was a good sign for — and likely gave confidence to — Spain, which is bringing its second syndicated benchmark of the year on Tuesday.
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Erste Abwicklungsanstalt (EAA) looks set to have the dollar market to itself on Tuesday with its first benchmark of the year, and is foregoing the price discovery process.
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Of all the parts of the EU Sustainable Finance Action Plan, the Taxonomy is closest to the heart of the green bond market.
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Representatives of the EU member states announced on Thursday an agreement on InvestEU, a bloc-wide investment fund that will replace the European Investment Bank’s fund for strategic investment (EFSI) after 2020.
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Centre right members of the European Parliament have balked at approving a proposal to change the EU’s Taxonomy of Sustainable Economic Activities so it highlights unsustainable activities. Jon Hay reports.
