Canadian dollar
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The World Bank sold a sustainable development bond in Canadian dollars on Thursday that took issuance in the currency from non-Canadian SSAs in July to its busiest month ever. -
The Canadian dollar market could see a resurgence in SSA issuance, said bankers, after the European Investment Bank printed a deal in a rare tenor for the currency this week.
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The International Finance Corporation (IFC) visited the Canadian dollar market for the first time in more than 10 years this week, matching its largest ever deal in the currency for size.
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CPPIB Capital achieved a double whammy with its debut green bond this week, bringing the first international sale of a green bond by a pension fund that grew into the largest ever green bond in Canadian dollars.
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World Bank issued a rare benchmark Canadian dollar bond this week, raising C$1bn ($802m) with a sustainable development deal in a strong week for niche currency sales from SSA borrowers that also included several Australian and New Zealand dollar deals.
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Walt Disney joined the swell of blue chips entering the Maple market, selling C$1.25bn ($1bn) of seven year notes on Wednesday. Maple bonds, a suburb of niche currency markets for years, is becoming a hotbed for blue chips in search of diversification, writes Silas Brown.
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Walt Disney joined the swell of blue chips entering the Maple market, selling C$1.25bn ($1bn) of seven year notes on Tuesday. And, as recent issues from AB InBev, Apple and McDonald's demonstrate, the Maple market is becoming a central pillar of corporate funding diversification.
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The Walt Disney Company is heading north for Canadian dollars, in its first public foray beyond the dollar market.
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The renminbi held its spot as the world’s fifth most active payments currency in August, according to Swift’s RMB tracker. The news came just a day after Swift said it will start displaying China’s Cross-Border Interbank Payment System’s (Cips) data on its system.
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Harvest Operations Corp said last Friday that it has completed a C$1bn ($763m) refinancing, comprising a new term loan and restructuring of an existing credit facility.
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The Province of Quebec is set to follow its neighbour Ontario into green bond issuance, opening books for the inaugural bond on Thursday.
