World Bank
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The World Bank increased a January 2021 New Zealand dollar note on Thursday with a tap that is largest issue in the Kauri market so far this year, according to a banker on the deal.
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A stream of SSA borrowers entered the primary bond market this week in both euros and dollars. Dual tranche deals were popular as borrowers sought to take size without paying heavy new issue premiums. -
Finland is lining up a three year dollar benchmark for Wednesday, following a stream of issuance on Tuesday that highlighted the strength of the dollar market.
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Issuers have nipped into the euro market after Easter with some canny deals. Meanwhile the dollar market was watching US Federal Reserve chairperson, Janet Yellen, who on Tuesday said that the possibility of further rate hikes was “not a plan set in stone”.
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With the dollar market taking an early Easter holiday, the World Bank came through as the sole issuer to print in the currency, hitting $3bn in an arbitrage trade that was heralded as a “strong signal” of the health of the dollar market.
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World Bank tapped Italian retail investors for $165m this week, issuing a 10 year sustainable development bond.
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The World Bank surpassed expectations by raising $3bn of four year cash on Wednesday, in what one banker away from the deal said was a "strong signal" for the dollar market.
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World Bank tapped Italian retail investors for $165m this week, issuing a 10 year sustainable development bond.
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A trio of issuers in euros joined the sole dollar SSA benchmark deal this week in a flurry of pre-holiday activity, with a banker away from the this week's action remarking that the terrorist attacks in Belgium were likely to have a limited effect on SSA deals.
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World Bank is looking to grab an arbitrage opportunity with a four year global bond amid a dollar market that already appears to be on its Easter holidays.
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The World Bank last Friday printed in Canadian dollars for the first time in a year, seizing on strong sentiment following the European Central Bank's latest bout of monetary easing.
