Finland
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Swedish Export Credit (SEK) joined the ranks of SSAs increasing their funding programmes in response to the Covid-19 crisis this week. Meanwhile, Norway’s Kommunalbanken (KBN) has dropped its target by $2bn as a result of a weakening Norwegian kroner. -
This week's scorecard looks at the progress Nordic agencies have made in their 2020 funding programmes at the start of the second quarter.
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The Finnish Treasury said on Tuesday that it plans to increase its short-term borrowing to fund the government’s emergency fiscal package for the coronavirus outbreak.
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The Nordic region’s credit markets are experiencing something of a lockdown as the spread of Covid-19 lead to dozens of fund providers halting withdrawals last week and the effective closure of the primary market due to a shortage of liquidity.
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Despite the terrible effects of the coronavirus pandemic on capital markets, the MTN market is open and functioning.
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The first scorecard of 2020 looks at the progress Nordic agencies have made in their funding programmes at the start of March.
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Municipality Finance will look to issue a debut social bond in the second half of this year, having just become the first borrower in Finland to publish a framework for the format.
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Bank of America made a paper loss on a €455.4m block trade of shares in Sampo, the Finnish financial services group, on Tuesday night.
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Finland received record demand for its first syndication of the year on Tuesday. The sovereign was joined in the long end of the curve by the State of North Rhine Westphalia as it tapped its February 2038s.
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The Republic of Finland and the State of North Rhine Westphalia hired banks on Monday to prepare syndicated bonds at the long end of the euro curve. Yields of eurozone haven assets remain compressed while fears of the coronavirus outbreak intensify.
