KfW
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Public sector borrowers in the euro SSA market received strong demand in both the short and long ends of the curve on Tuesday. KfW took advantage of the blistering conditions to sell its first euro benchmark with a three year maturity since 2015, while Société du Grand Paris (SGP) sold its biggest ever bond. -
Société du Grand Paris (SGP) mandated banks on Monday for its second benchmark green bond, following its debut last October. Meanwhile, KfW hit screens for a long three year benchmark, the agency’s third benchmark in euros this year.
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KfW sold a tap in sterling on Monday with lead managers maintaining that the choice of an intraday execution was “key” ahead of a vote in UK parliament on prime minister Theresa May’s revised Brexit deal.
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Commerzbank and Deutsche Börse have completed of a repo transaction using blockchain technology, opening up the possibility of a secondary market environment operating on distributed ledger.
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Sterling issuance may be slowing down after its record start to the year, but investor demand shows no signs of cooling — as KfW proved with a tap on Monday that was nearly double its original target size. Any “bank treasury friendly” borrowers should find healthy demand if they follow in the currency, said bankers.
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New issue premiums almost seem to be a thing of the past in this week’s dollar market. As one head of SSA DCM put it: “the secondary market is just too cheap for primary”.
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Sweden has joined the throng of SSA borrowers making up for the dollar market's weak start to the year, bringing its first deal in the currency for over a year. It follows a trio of new issues that achieved tight spreads.
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The UK’s future may be impossible to fathom as the beyond-satirical story of Brexit drags on, but public sector borrowers printing in the country’s currency can be certain that this will be a year of tumbling records, with volumes soaring and average sizes rocketing. While strong technical factors are behind much of the demand, some SSA bankers say that a willingness by issuers to treat execution in the currency like that in euros and dollars has bolstered sterling’s standing.
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KfW made a strong return to the Canadian dollar market on Thursday after 3.5 years away from the currency, as it tightened pricing on its comeback deal. The German agency came alongside a green bond in the currency from a Canadian province.
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KfW and Québec will bring Canadian dollar bonds to the market on Thursday, with the former looking to issue in the currency for the first time since 2015.
