German Sovereign
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The primary euro public sector bond market continued its busy week on Thursday with KfW and KommuneKredit issuing new 10 and 20 year deals, respectively. -
After KfW mandated banks on Wednesday to join the 10 year euro flurry, the question on the minds of market participants is at what level the Germany agency will choose to start at with such a wide differential between relative and fair value.
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The State of North Rhine-Westphalia and Nederlandse Waterschapsbank rebooted the long of the euro SSA curve on Wednesday with well subscribed deals and minimal new issue premiums.
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The State of North Rhine-Westphalia and Nederlandse Waterschapsbank will be the first two public sector borrowers to test investors’ appetite for euro deals in the long end of the curve following the summer break.
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The State of Baden-Wuerttemberg only managed to sell around half of its €1bn 10 year bond to investors on Tuesday as it came flat or slightly through its curve alongside competing supply in the tenor.
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The European Investment Bank will re-open the euro public sector bond new issue market for the last funding period of the year. Further issuers are expected to appear this week, trying to get in before the European Union’s giant borrowing programme begins.
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Germany will issue green Bunds every year in the future, hoping to “establish a green euro interest rate benchmark, thus creating added value for the sustainable finance market”, its government said on Monday, as it revealed details of its first two green bond issues.
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KfW began a new wave of 10 year supply this week, reopening the SSA market’s trickiest tenor for business. Issuers are so eager to access the maturity that they are having to jockey for position.
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KfW opened up a window for 10 year dollar bonds in the public sector market on Tuesday amid a rise in long-dated US Treasury yields with two more borrowers hoping to find similar success in the tenor on Wednesday.
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Two agencies were out with dollar mandates on Monday and more public sector borrowers could follow with deals this week as a rise in US Treasury yields boosts demand for SSA dollar bonds.
