UK Sovereign
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The UK Debt Management Office will in November sell the fourth of five planned Gilt syndications during its 2019/20 financial year. -
The Public Works Loans Board has given investment banks and asset managers the Christmas present they have been praying for for years. By hiking the cost of loans to local authorities, it will force them into private capital markets. Big mistake.
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This week's funding scorecard looks at the progress European sovereigns have made in their funding programmes as we approach the end of October.
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The African Export Bank (Afexrimbank) has filed initial paperwork before a potential float on the London Stock Exchange.
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The UK Treasury has started the search for the banks that will structure its second sukuk, planned for early next year.
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The UK Debt Management Office (DMO) raised £4bn after it reopened its 2054 Gilt this week with market participants signalling their preference for the maturity rather than even longer maturities, said chief executive Robert Stheeman.
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The UK Debt Management (DMO) and European Investment Bank reopened a quiet sterling market on Tuesday with a pair of syndicated taps, which bankers feel will leave issuers and investors "confident" to follow.
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Inflation-linked Gilts suffered a steep sell-off in the secondary market on Wednesday as investors priced in proposed changes to the methodology of the Retail Price Index (RPI).
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The UK is preparing to launch its second sukuk in early 2020, said city minister John Glen on Wednesday in a speech at an Islamic Finance Week event held at Mansion House.
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Sajid Javid, the UK chancellor of the exchequer, said on Wednesday that the government has no intention to stop the sale of Gilts linked to the Retail Price Index (RPI), and that no changes would occur to the methodology until at least 2025.
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The UK Debt Management Office on Friday announced the syndicate that will run its forthcoming tap of the 2054 Gilt, as well as its plans for a further Gilt syndication to be held during the third quarter of 2019.
