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The European Bank for Reconstruction and Development on Tuesday equalled its largest ever size in dollars on Tuesday with a deal priced flat to or through its curve. The Asian Development Bank is set to follow in a market in which issuers are winning demand from investors starved of supply, said bankers.

The European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) is set to bring a dollar benchmark to investors starved of supply in the currency. Despite dollar conditions being strong all month, no borrowers brought deals last week — perhaps because they preferred to wait for the first round of the French presidential election to pass on Sunday, said bankers.

This week's scorecard looks at the progress supranationals have made in their funding programmes this year.

Manfred Schepers, who worked at UBS Warburg and its predecessors for 17 years to 2003, has been nominated to join the board of Dutch bank Van Lanschot.

A pair of supranational issuers nipped in on Tuesday with what are likely to be the final dollar deals of the week before a Federal Open Market Committee meeting on Wednesday — where futures prices suggest an overwhelming likelihood that the Federal Reserve’s target rate will rise.

Two supranationals will share the three year dollar market on Tuesday, moving in ahead of the US Federal Reserve meeting on Wednesday, which is expected to lead to a rise in US interest rates.

This week's scorecard looks at the progress supranationals have made with their funding programmes this year.

Multilateral development banks will focus more on providing credit enhancement and support to help small, emerging market borrowers bring their green bonds to market, according to the head of climate change at the European Investment Bank. Meanwhile, a French region visited the green market on Tuesday.

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US President Donald Trump’s first speech to Congress, a remarkable switch in Federal Reserve rate expectations and swap spreads falling from their early week highs all failed to derail a stellar week for public sector dollar issuance. More trades are expected to come next week, before the market quiets ahead of the Fed’s next rate decision and a Dutch general election where the far-right Party for Freedom (PVV) is expected to perform well.

Market participants have grown used to US president Donald Trump’s ability to shift markets and induce volatility with only 140 characters, but Tuesday’s address to Congress appears to have been digested without spoiling the mood in SSAs.

KfW and the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development took full advantage of a strong environment to sell dollar benchmarks on Tuesday. Further dollar issuance is rumoured this week — with conditions so good that deals may come despite potential volatility from US president Donald Trump making his first speech to Congress during the New York evening on Tuesday night.