World Bank
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World Bank has been aggressively pushing out its curve linked to the Secured Overnight Financing Rate: the new risk free rate in dollars. Other supranationals are eager to follow the Bretton Woods institution into longer dated floating rate paper.
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World Bank sold the longest ever Sofr-linked floating rate note from a public sector borrower on Thursday with a $600m 10 year trade.
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The World Bank hit the long end of the dollar market on Tuesday. It was joined in the currency by a French agency issuing at the popular five year tenor.
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The World Bank will be the latest public sector borrower to hit the long end of the dollar curve after mandating banks on Monday for a new 10 year benchmark, taking advantage of the increased investor appetite for this maturity as a result of the higher yields on offer.
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World Bank extended its euro benchmark curve with flying colours on Wednesday, in a further sign of ample demand for duration amid a low yielding environment.
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World Bank hired banks on Tuesday to lead a new 40 year euro sustainable development bond — the supranational’ s longest ever benchmark in the currency. The deal will be the latest example of public sector borrowers venturing longer in the euro market this year.
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MTN issuance out of Asia and Sweden provided some of the week’s bright spots in what was otherwise a quiet start to the year. With the public market now in full swing, bankers expect the private placement market to get up to speed in the coming weeks.
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Public sector borrowing has been the backbone of the global economy’s response to the unprecedented economic and humanitarian disaster of Covid-19. Sovereigns, supranationals, agencies and regions rose to the new challenge, displaying more ingenuity and ambition than ever in their selection of market, format, currency and tenor and producing some truly spectacular deals. Borrowers throughout the SSA class had to adjust their funding programmes after the first quarter — many to double or even treble their requirements. Contending with inflated funding needs, as well as a market beset by severe dislocations, required unusual flexibility and creativity. Amid all that, SSA borrowers managed not simply to raise the sums required, but to push forward market attitudes to SRI debt and to new risk-free-rates products.
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World Bank double-dipped this week, hitting the sterling market on Monday and the dollar market on Tuesday, focusing its efforts longer in the curve to increase the duration of its portfolio.
