French Sovereign
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Agence Française de Développement announced on Thursday that it will be launching a new framework showing how its treasury activities promote the UN’s Sustainable Development Goals. It has also boosted its funding programme to allow it to meet its clients' additional needs caused by the coronavirus pandemic.
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Africa Finance Corp, the pan-African development finance institution, printed its first green bond on Monday.
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Caisse d’Amortissement de la Dette Sociale (Cades) and the International Development Association set new size records this week, with the former bringing the biggest ever social bond in dollars and the latter issuing its biggest ever bond since entering the capital markets in 2018.
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French agency Cades and the International Development Association returned to the dollar market for the first time since the summer break on Tuesday to bring a pair of five year socially responsible deals.
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French agency Cades will debut its social bond framework in dollars on Tuesday, less than a week after it raised the largest ever bond in the format with its inaugural issue in euros. It will share the market with the International Development Association (IDA), which is preparing to kick off its 2020/21 funding year with a sustainable development benchmark of its own.
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French agency Caisse des Dépôts et Consignations is planning to round off its 2020 funding through private placements. It was last active in the market at the end of last week, selling a long dated callable bond to an investor hunting for a yield pick-up versus Bunds.
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Caisse d’Amortissement de la Dette Sociale (Cades) made an impressive debut in the social bond market on Wednesday with the biggest ever deal in the format by any issuer, overtaking the previous record set by Unédic earlier in the year.
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As Caisse des Dépôts et Consignations (CDC) returned to the sustainability bond market on Tuesday to sell its second bond in the format, fellow French agency Caisse d’Amortissement de la Dette Sociale (Cades) mandated for its own sustainability bond debut.
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French agency Caisse des Dépôts et Consignations (CDC) hit screens on Monday afternoon with its second ever sustainability bond, following its debut in the format last year.