KfW
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Last week's sole benchmark, a KfW outing in five year euros, impressed the GC BondMarker voters, who awarded it high grades in all categories. But how did it compare with KfW's other offerings this year? -
Rentenbank added a A$100m ($75.6m) tap to its March 2027 Australian dollar bonds on Monday, a line it has tapped frequently since opening it in September.
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KfW tapped a four year Australian dollar bond on Thursday, after raising €5bn in the euro market the day before.
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The euro market will be tested quickly following the first round of the French presidential election on Sunday as the European Financial Stability Facility has sent out a request for proposals.
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The first round of the French presidential election takes place this Sunday and, while the market is mostly quiet, Derek Halpenny, head of global markets research at MUFG, says that market participants have not priced in much risk of a shock anti-EU result.
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A hotly contested battle for the French presidency has quieted much of the public sector market this week, but KfW has picked banks for a five year euro benchmark.
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This week's funding scorecard looks at the progress European supranationals and agencies have made at the start of the second quarter.
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The GC BondMarker scores for last week's benchmarks have been counted and market participants have deemed the European Financial Stability Facility's return to the long end a success.
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The dollar market was on spectacular form on Wednesday, with a Canadian province pushing out a rare 10 year bond, a supranational smashing its size record and a $4bn five year from a German agency.
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German government-owned development bank KfW has entered into an agreement with Eurex Clearing that will see its euro denominated interest rate swaps cleared by the Frankfurt central counterparty.
