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Emmanuel Macron has called for the creation of a European Climate Bank to finance the European Union’s “ecological transition” towards a climate friendly economy. While the French president’s plea for such financing is right and urgent, creating yet another European supranational entity is not the most efficient solution, especially as the EU already has a world leader in sustainable lending — the European Investment Bank.

The European Investment Bank and FMS Wertmanagement sold well oversubscribed issues in the sterling SSA market on Tuesday before an expected quieter period for new issues in the currency next week as parliament votes on prime minister Theresa May’s revised Brexit deal.

The European Investment Bank will look to extend the Sonia-linked floating rate note curve on Tuesday with a seven year trade. On-looking bankers welcomed the development but said it would not lead to a rush of issuers heading for that part of the curve.

Representatives of the EU member states announced on Thursday an agreement on InvestEU, a bloc-wide investment fund that will replace the European Investment Bank’s fund for strategic investment (EFSI) after 2020.

One of the biggest snowstorms to hit Ottawa in years could not stop Export Development Canada printing its largest ever deal this week, alongside a record three year book for the European Investment Bank (EIB) and a very healthy Bank of England (BoE) dollar deal.

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A pair of triple-A SSA borrowers built heavily oversubscribed books — and one printed its largest ever deal — on Wednesday in a dollar market that is still attracting heavy demand and performing in secondary despite already tight levels.

A strong start to the year for public sector dollar issuance is keeping up the pace so far this week, with last week’s slowdown during the Chinese New Year holidays only appearing to make investors hungrier. Both of Tuesday’s dollar deals were well oversubscribed — one spectacularly so — and there is a full card of issuers waiting to come on Wednesday.

The theme in the euro public sector market this week was large book sizes despite issuers paying very little concession, with Finland, the European Investment Bank (EIB), Madrid and the Joint Länder all keeping close to their curves.

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All three public sector borrowers in the euro market on Tuesday received record order books, despite the spreads tightening by up to 5bp during pricing — which left little to no concessions for investors.

The European Investment Bank on Monday selected the five year part of the curve for its second euro benchmark of the year. The issuer will be hoping to replicate the recent success of public sector agencies in that tenor, including KfW, which achieved a record breaking book for its five year last week.