World Bank
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This week's scorecard looks at the progress supranationals have made in their funding programmes.
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World Bank played first responder to Asian investor calls for longer-dated Aussie dollar bonds on Monday, printing a landmark A$135m ($103.9m) November 2031 note. It is the first 15 year benchmark in the currency by a non-domestic SSA name. More could follow. -
The public sector bond primary market’s run of strength has come to an end as dealers and borrowers turned their attention to the panoply of risks facing them in the weeks to come.
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The dollar market for public sector borrowers could become “congested” in the traditional January rush next year, with issuers looking to refinance commercial paper in the term markets as a result of changes in US money market fund regulation and a dearth of options in other currencies. Craig McGlashan reports.
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World Bank has reopened the 10 year part of the dollar curve, with other public sector issuers keen to follow it into the tenor.
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The long end will stay very much in vogue for euro issuers next week — which SSA bankers are predicting could be the last big window of issuance for the year.
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The World Bank is set to price the largest 10 year dollar benchmark from an SSA since July, as another issuer considered following the supranational into that part of the curve.
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The World Bank will on Thursday attempt to resurrect the 10 year part of the dollar curve, a sector that has had next to no benchmark issuance from top tier issuers in the second half of the year.
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The World Bank on Tuesday sold its longest dated euro syndication and its biggest single issue in the currency in nearly three years, as SSA bankers hoped that other Washington DC-based supranationals could look at the currency.
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This week's funding scorecard looks at the progress supranationals have made in their funding programmes.
