French Sovereign
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Two SSA borrowers landed in the euro bond market on Wednesday while a third lined up business for next week. Issuers may still be achieving good results but bankers believe conditions are turning bad. -
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Bpifrance is looking to become a regular issuer of green bonds, following its debut deal in the format this week.
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Bpifrance achieved a solid result as it sold its first green bond on Thursday, which came alongside another green bond from a compatriot issuer.
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Bpifrance will be holding calls with investors next week to introduce its new green bond framework ahead of a debut deal in the format with the proceeds to be focused on renewable energy projects.
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This week's funding scorecard looks at the progress French agencies have made in their funding programmes at the beginning of April.
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French president Emmanuel Macron announced on Wednesday that stringent lockdown measures imposed in some areas will be extended nationally for a month. Though the measures will cost France €11bn, it is unlikely to provoke a serious response in France’s bond market.
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France's Agence Française de Développement is looking to hire a director of its treasury and capital markets department.
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The head of the Portuguese treasury and debt management agency (IGCP) said she supports France’s novel approach of engaging with investors to tackle the problem of inflated orders.
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Unédic, the French unemployment agency, had the euro SSA primary market to itself on Wednesday, allowing it to comfortably print €3bn with its second social bond benchmark of the year.
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Trading levels given are bid-side spreads versus mid-swaps and/or an underlying benchmark and bid-yields from the close of business on Tuesday, March 23. The source for secondary trading levels is ICE Data Services.
