German Sovereign
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KfW has entered the Blockchain race, after simulating a trade in real time using distributed ledger technology, the agency said on Monday.
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A slightly more hawkish than expected US Federal Open Market Committee meeting mid-week has nudged up US Treasury yields — bringing 10 year dollar issuance nearly within SSAs’ reach, said bankers. But in the meantime, SSA bankers are looking at the dollar pipeline with dismay.
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L-Bank has snuck in at the last possible moment before the end of a crucial US Federal Reserve meeting to raise $500m with a comfortably oversubscribed floater.
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Guarantor: Financial Market Stabilisation Fund of the Federal Republic of Germany
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Two high quality euro borrowers printed what may be among their last benchmarks of the year this week, squeezing new issue premiums flat to the curve as investors filled their boots.
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Austria has become the first eurozone sovereign to syndicate a 100 year bond, selling €3.5bn to investors desperate to pile cash into ultra-long paper.
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Guarantor: Federal State of North Rhine-Westphalia
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A tremendously supportive SSA market brushed off Thursday’s European Central Bank (ECB) meeting, printing all the way up to the morning of the press conference by bank president Mario Draghi, writes Lewis McLellan.
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The sterling market is on fire for SSA borrowers. Attractive conditions and investors with cash to deploy have come together to produce some of the market’s most impressive deals of the year, with more in the pipeline.
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NRW.Bank launched its fifth green bond on Wednesday, sneaking in just ahead of Thursday’s European Central Bank meeting.