World Bank
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World Bank scored an impressive result with the first dollar benchmark of its new fiscal year as it priced at the joint-tightest level versus mid-swaps for a five year deal in the currency since the onset of the coronavirus pandemic. -
World Bank mandated banks on Monday to lead its first dollar benchmark transaction of its 2020/21 financial year, which could be priced tighter versus mid-swaps than any other five year dollar trade since the start of the coronavirus pandemic.
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Private sector involvement in Covid-19 debt relief efforts seems set for a mire of unclear messaging and recriminations, after G20 figures published this weekend disappointed.
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G20 finance ministers are being urged to use their meeting this weekend to include private sector creditors in their deal on debt interest relief for low-income countries.
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The head of the World Bank has, for the first time, called for parts of the sovereign debts owed by the world’s poorest countries to official bilateral creditors to be cancelled, in the face of the coronavirus’s impact.
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This week's funding scorecard looks at the progress supranationals have made in their funding programmes at the start of July.
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Bank of China sold its first ever bond out of its Djibouti branch on Monday, as Chinese issuers pour into capital markets to make up for time lost to the coronavirus pandemic.
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The International Development Association (IDA) has tapped the Swedish krona market for the first time as it prepares to increase its funding programme for the 2020-21 fiscal year.
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The World Bank returned to the Canadian dollar on Wednesday with a new C$1.5bn ($1.11bn) sustainable development bond, as movements in the cross currency basis swap, as well as the spread to Canadian Mortgage Bonds (CMBs), allowed the supranational to print the largest SSA Maple deal since last July.
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Three SSA borrowers hit the dollar market on Tuesday. The Inter-American Development Bank raised $4bn with a five year while Kommunalbanken tested the waters at 10 years. The World Bank joined them with a small but impressive bond linked to Sofr.
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The World Bank has published what it describes as its first impact report covering all of the bonds it has issued and its entire development portfolio.
