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'Dead quiet' few weeks will benefit issuers as excess bonds need absorption before issuance starts to ‘fire on all cylinders’ from August 17
Green investors buy when everyone else stops, giving issuers one last pricing lever — perhaps to cross a line none of them wants to reach
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The African Development Bank is set to announce on Monday afternoon the other risk transfer transaction it has been working on, in parallel with the ground-breaking $1bn securitization it closed in September. Like that, this portfolio credit insurance transaction could serve as a model for other supranationals. -
The African Development Bank’s $500m portfolio credit insurance deal, to be announced on Monday October 22, is one of the first of its kind, but is very likely to be followed by further such transactions, as experience in this area grows and other development finance institutions explore the potential benefits.
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South American development bank Corporación Andina de Fomento (CAF) could turn to the public bond markets to begin its pre-funding for 2019, having issued its largest ever private placement last week to bring its 2018 financing programme close to completion.
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Multilateral development banks are increasingly seeking creative ways to strengthen their arms by getting private capital to invest alongside them, magnifying their efforts. The International Finance Corp has long been one of the most active in this field, and thanks to a fund it launched five years ago, it last year achieved a co-investment ratio of over 100%.
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This week's funding scorecard looks at the progress supranationals have made in their funding programmes.
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Green finance experts have hailed the Bank of England’s announcement this week that it intends to tighten supervision of financial firms’ climate risks as an important step forward in greening the financial system. But doubts remain as to whether the Bank will push firms far enough, fast enough.
