World Bank
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Europe’s candidate to take over as the next head of the International Monetary Fund received a boost this week after the body’s executive board called for the age limit to be raised and hopes receded of a rival candidate stepping forward. -
The World Bank was one of a bevy of SSA dollar issuers raising a total of $8.4bn this week, with most of the trades indicating that investors coming back from the summer were having to decipher a completely different market to the one they left.
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The World Bank has mandated for its first dollar benchmark of its fiscal year, as the issuer starts hacking away at its up to $60bn funding programme for the year.
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The World Bank is preparing to reopen its 'blockchain offered new debt instrument', or bond-i for short, as it looks to market the Australian dollar deal to a more international audience.
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The World Bank has kicked off its up to $60bn funding programme for the year, and the issuer is expecting to be in the market again soon.
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The World Bank has printed the longest ever bond with a coupon linked to the Secured Overnight Financing Rate (Sofr), edging the market towards settling the debate about how to calculate coupons based on the benchmark rate.
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The World Bank has printed the longest ever bond with a coupon linked to the Secured Overnight Financing Rate (Sofr), with the market finally seeming to find a consensus on how to work out the coupon for the dollar Libor replacement benchmark.
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The World Bank placed its first Hong Kong dollar deal of its 2019/2020 funding year last week. The supranational chose to link the private placement to the Hibor benchmark, a now little seen structure that was likely the result of a "very specific enquiry", according to one MTN banker away from the deal.
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This week’s funding scorecard looks at the progress supranationals have made in their funding programmes towards the end of July
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Investors have looked towards structured and long dated notes in their hunt for yield as the summer break creeps closer.
