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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.
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This week's funding scorecard looks at the progress supranationals have made in their funding programmes.
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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”.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Supranationals found heavy demand from investors for privately placed taps of outstanding dollar and euro notes over the past week, with Asian Development Bank printing particularly heavy volumes.
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Asian Development Bank received large demand for its inaugural Sonia-linked floater on Tuesday, despite offering no new issue concession. The supranational saw a number of new accounts and was able to increase the size of the deal to set the largest volume it has sold in sterling to date.
