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  • The Asian Development Bank broke two records on Thursday as it printed its biggest sterling deal to date and took non-UK SSA issuance in the currency to a record level for a half year. Supply is likely to take a breather next week owing to some crucial Brexit votes in the UK Parliament, but SSA bankers are confident the market will not take long to spark back into life.
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  • The Asian Development Bank broke two records on Thursday as it printed its biggest sterling deal to date and took non-UK SSA issuance in the currency to a record level for a half year. Supply is likely to take a breather next week due to some crucial Brexit votes in the UK Parliament, but SSA bankers are confident the market will not take long to spark back into life.
  • The Kangaroo bond market’s recent bounce kept pace this week as Asian Development Bank on Tuesday raised an additional A$100m ($71.6m) with a tap of an existing A$250m issue. Bankers are confident that more supply could follow.
  • Far East Horizon and Asian Development Bank added a bit of life to the dim sum bond market in February, raising Rmb740m ($110.4m) between them. Bankers think looming maturities could give them more business this year.
  • This week's funding scorecard looks at the progress supranationals have made in their funding programmes.
  • Rating: Aaa/AAA/AAA
  • Rating: Aaa/AAA/AAA
  • SSA
    It was another sparkling week in dollars for public sector borrowers, with Asian Development Bank the pick of the bunch as it brought the tightest deal of the year so far versus Libor and US Treasuries. More supply is expected for next week, although some SSA bankers feel the market could do with a “breather”.
  • The public sector dollar market on Wednesday showed that it had more than enough depth to cope with a pair of issuers bringing deals in the same maturity with just a basis point of difference in initial price thoughts, as both trades came in size and at tightened pricing. Another agency is set to dip into the demand on Thursday.
  • Hopes of a thriving new market for securitizations by multilateral development banks hit a hole in the road in December, when the US Treasury said it disapproved of them and would seek to stop them.
  • The European Investment Bank and KfW comfortably raised a combined £2.25bn on Thursday after receiving whopping investor demand for benchmark trades. This Friday is set to add to the sterling glut, with deals from the Asian Development Bank, Bank Nederlandse Gemeenten and Swedish Export Credit Corporation.