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Performance compared to peers and quality of demand 'really impressive'
◆ Spread set at starting level ◆ Floor in sight for agencies ◆ 'Success for Kommuninvest'
◆ 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
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The third week of July finally saw the summer lull kick in, with SSA issuance volumes at less than half of what was sold last week. But Bank Nederlandse Gemeenten still managed to snatch up a successful tap, and SSA bankers and issuers reckoned the market still bodes well for new issues. -
NatWest Markets is fifth in Dealogic’s European sovereign bond bookrunner league table, a big leap on this time last year as it expands its presence across the SSA market — including into the dollar sector.
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A move is under way to broaden the idea of Science-Based Targets — one of the most ambitious wings of the business world’s fight against climate change — to take in other ‘planetary boundaries’ such as fresh water and land.
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Natixis will soon embark on an experiment that may be the first of its kind — introducing a green weighting factor to its internal economic capital model, to tilt incentives for its bankers in favour of green loans and away from ‘brown’ ones.
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World Bank on Wednesday returned following an eight month absence in dollar benchmark funding to print the tightest spread on a three year dollar deal from an SSA this year.
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Bank Nederlandse Gemeenten on Tuesday achieved big size and a decent price with a €750m tap of a 10 year bond whose original issue had underwhelmed — leading one SSA banker to reference Hollywood by calling the reopening the “Shawshank Redemption”.
