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The International Finance Corporation has launched its first short dated index linker, which it has designed to draw in funds from US retail investors.

After three years of arduous development by the International Finance Corporation, the first 'forests bond' hit screens on Monday, and the issuer hopes to come back for more.

The IFC’s new 'forests bond' has much to recommend it, but like so many other green investments, its main value lies in publicity, not purely in financing.

The International Finance Corporation tapped a July 2026 Australian dollar bond for A$50m ($38.1m) on Monday. As part of its efforts to increase the minimum size of its 10 year Kangaroo taps from A$20m to A$50m, the IFC found investors to top up an initial A$30m reverse enquiry.

This week's funding scorecard looks at the progress supranationals have made in their funding programmes.

Already a pioneering issuer in the currency, the International Finance Corporation (IFC) believes greater regulatory clarity will provide a fresh boost to its onshore and offshore renminbi funding plans, Monish Mahurkar, director for treasury market operations, told GlobalRMB.

Public sector borrowers are piling into the dollar market at the start of the week, with a US Federal Reserve rate decision on Wednesday likely to shorten the issuance window.

GlobalCapital announces the results of its first full scale, standalone set of Sustainable and Responsible Capital Markets Awards.

The long end of the Kanga curve saw action this week, as Japanese investors hunted for yieldy paper.

The European Investment Bank returned to capital markets with a splash on Tuesday, indicating that, what passed for 2016’s summer break is coming to an end.

This week's scorecard looks at where supranationals are in their funding programmes ahead of the September rush.

The International Finance Corporation has brought its second Nigerian naira bond of the year, just one week after its first issuance in the currency since August 2015.