German Sovereign
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Searing conditions in the sterling market could lead to a record opening week of SSA issuance in the currency as a pair of issuers lined up deals for Friday — despite this only being a four day week. -
KfW and Ireland brought euro deals on Wednesday at the very top end of size expectations, alleviating a little of the pressure on what is set to be an extremely busy year in the currency. The trades came the same day as Municipality Finance mandated for a euro benchmark and a request for proposals came from the European Financial Stability Facility.
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The European Investment Bank set a marker on Wednesday that sterling issuance could be just as hot this month as it was in January last year — as another pair of issuers hoped to add further evidence of that this week.
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KfW placed its final deal of the year on Tuesday, tapping a short dated sterling line and making this the busiest December for offshore SSA sterling issuance in over a decade.
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KfW tapped a December 2019 sterling line on Tuesday, printing £200m to round off the agency's strongest year in sterling since 2008.
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Rentenbank will sell up to €4.8bn of benchmarks next year, the German agency said on Tuesday, as it announced its funding plans for 2017.
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On the day that KfW released its funding target for 2017, GlobalCapital caught up with Petra Wehlert, the agency’s head of capital markets, and Alexander Liebethal, head of new issues, capital markets, to find out more about its issuance strategy for next year.
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A pair of public sector borrowers hit screens this week for dollar syndications, providing an unexpectedly strong climax to 2016.
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Rentenbank sold what is likely to be its final benchmark of the year on Tuesday.
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Rentenbank has announced that it will sell a five year dollar bond on Tuesday, winding up its 2016 funding programme and making the most of what a banker at one of the leads called “one of the last good windows of the year”.
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