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◆ Supra prices inside peers’ seven year deals ◆ Slim NIP paid after 3bp tightening ◆ ‘Very strong day’ for SSA market
◆ Sharp landing through a noisy open ◆ Grinding towards US Treasuries ◆ Bankers praise execution but warn of residuals building
◆ Last syndication of H1 was 20 times covered ◆ Book was comparable in size to January’s ◆ Smaller deal than some expected, H2 funding plan moves into focus
‘Very normal market’ despite ongoing war and volatility to support another wave of new issues
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The Development Bank of Japan was able to tighten pricing on a €700m October 2025 sustainability bond this week, something not every issuer has found possible in the currency in the past few weeks. Meanwhile, the World Bank tapped an old friend for $200m with a green bond. -
Two Nordic agencies have raised their funding needs for the year due to an increase in their lending activity, just as the final quarter has begun.
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The European Stability Mechanism is likely to aim for the six to eight year part of the euro curve when it brings its first deal of the fourth quarter next week, said SSA bankers. The trade will likely face a more cautious investor base than the borrower enjoyed earlier in the year, they added.
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Asian Development Bank received large demand for its inaugural Sonia-linked floater on Tuesday, despite offering no new issue concession. The supranational saw a number of new accounts and was able to increase the size of the deal to set the largest volume it has sold in sterling to date.
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Public sector bond market participants are growing increasingly frustrated at the pace of the implementation of Ester, the alternative euro risk-free rate to replace Euribor. Borrowers are unable to plan for, let alone issue, a bond linked to the benchmark without the rate being published by the European Central Bank. That leaves the euro far behind other markets where Libor is being replaced, writes Burhan Khadbai.
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The International Finance Corp became the first issuer to launch a green Komodo bond — an offshore bond in Indonesian rupiah — on September 28. But the World Bank had the same idea: it launched a sustainability bond in rupiah the following week.
