L-Bank

Read on to see how selected benchmarks are faring in secondary. Trading levels given are bid-side spreads versus mid-swaps and/or an underlying benchmark as of Thursday's close. The source for secondary trading levels is Interactive Data.

Read on to see how selected benchmarks are faring in secondary. Trading levels given are bid-side spreads versus mid-swaps and/or an underlying benchmark as of Thursday's close. The source for secondary trading levels is Interactive Data.

Investors flocked to buy short dated sterling paper from L-Bank on Wednesday, allowing the issuer to almost double its minimum size ambitions. The agency offers a pickup over other triple-A rated German agencies, buoying investor demand for the print.

L-Bank became the second German agency to find strong demand in the two year part of the dollar curve this week, pricing a $2bn June 2016 at the tight end of guidance on Thursday.

This week's scorecard focuses on the funding programmes of selected German states and agencies. Most of this week's issuers are already more than halfway through their 2014 funding requirement.

Read on to see how selected benchmarks are faring in secondary. Trading levels given are bid-side spreads versus mid-swaps and/or an underlying benchmark as of Thursday's close. The source for secondary trading levels is Interactive Data.

Read on to see how selected benchmarks are faring in secondary. Trading levels given are bid-side spreads versus mid-swaps and/or an underlying benchmark as of Thursday's close. The source for secondary trading levels is Interactive Data.

Cades and KfW were the latest issuers to add to a flood of dollar issuance on Wednesday afternoon, hiring banks for a 10 year and four year deal respectively. The European Investment Bank and L-Bank both enjoyed solid demand for benchmarks of their own on Wednesday.

The European Investment Bank and L-Bank will add to a deluge of dollar issuance on Wednesday. The issuers mandated on Tuesday for benchmark deals on Tuesday, following deals by Denmark, Agence Française de Développement and the Bank of England.

This week's scorecard focuses on the funding programmes of selected German states and agencies. Next week's scorecard will feature French agencies.

Kangaroo issuance is expected to remain healthy through to the end of the week as investor demand for Australian dollar paper remains strong. L-Bank has mandated for its first Kangaroo in nearly four years, while Kommunalbanken has also hired banks for a deal and a third issuer is expected to announce a trade on Thursday.

Land NRW was the only issuer out with a benchmark mandate on Monday afternoon as SSA Markets went to press, but a few more issuers are waiting in the wings to pull the trigger before new issue markets begin to shut down ahead of year end.