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Investors are still hungry to put their money to work in short dated dollars after a bumper last week, with the European Investment Bank on Tuesday set to price a $4.5bn three year bond and the African Development Bank mandating for a two year benchmark.

The European Investment Bank was first into the dollar market this week with a three year mandate, the maturity of choice for dollar issuers over the last few weeks. Export Development Canada last Friday sold the first five year dollar benchmark from SSA in several weeks and, while it went well, bankers do not expect other issuers to follow suit.

The European Stability Mechanism is close to deciding on the format its first dollar benchmark will be printed in, while a deal due this Friday could open up to longer dated tenors what has already been an extremely strong dollar market in the three year part of the curve.

Export Development Canada will on Friday join a rampant dollar benchmark market and could open end up giving issuers more options after choosing a more daring maturity than those executed in the last few weeks.

Rentenbank tapped its new 10 year Kangaroo line for A$50m ($37.8m) on Tuesday. Attracting a mixture of Asian accounts, the agency's long dated paper pulled in a wide range of investors.

The Inter-American Development Bank, a Canadian sub-sovereign and two Danish agencies offered chunky issuance to the Kangaroo market this week. The SSAs took advantage of Asian accounts looking to work their cash at the 10 year part of the Australian dollar curve.

The Canadian province of Quebec added a 10th tap to its May 2026 Kangaroo line on Wednesday. The lead praised the borrower's swift execution of Kangaroo taps at the longer end of the curve.

Saxony-Anhalt increased the size of a new three year dollar deal on Wednesday after squeezing pricing tighter twice during two days of marketing.

Bank Nederlandse Gemeenten and Nederlandse Waterschapsbank were stunned by the scale of reverse enquiry for taps to their Kangaroo notes on Tuesday, with a rare Japanese investor driving both deals to double the size of any previous tap to their respective 10 year lines.

International Finance Corp and KommuneKredit tapped 10 year Kangaroo bonds this week, the only active tenor in the market.

The volatility of the Mexican peso is causing investors to keep away from long term debt in the currency.

The International Finance Corporation added a A$50m ($38.2m) tap to its July 2026 bond on Monday. The IFC is looking to increase its minimum volume requirements for opening 10 year Aussie taps from A$20m to A$50m.