Nordic Investment Bank NIB
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The European Investment Bank and Nordic Investment Bank kept the strong momentum going in the SSA euro bond market on Wednesday, capitalising on the European Central Bank’s announcement of fresh stimulus last week and a lack of issuance over the summer. However, Joint Laender's deal was only just oversubscribed, which the leads attributed to investors’ hesitance to buy a negative yielding 10 year bond from a less liquid name. -
Fresh from the announcement of a new stimulus package by the European Central Bank last week, investors stormed into the euro public sector bond market on Tuesday, led by KfW and Bpifrance. The latter printed €1.25bn, equaling its biggest ever single issue. The strong momentum is set to continue with a string of mandates, including two supranationals for Wednesday.
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This week’s funding scorecard looks at the progress supranationals have made in their funding programmes at the end of August.
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Kommunalbanken brought its green bond framework to the Swedish krona market for the first time last week to place its seventh green note, its first since August 2018. The move into the currency follows a wider trend of major SSA issuers funding in niche currencies as raising debt in core markets becomes harder, according to bankers.
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This week’s funding scorecard looks at the progress supranationals have made in their funding programmes towards the end of July
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Investors have looked towards structured and long dated notes in their hunt for yield as the summer break creeps closer.
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A trio of SSAs made the most of low yields in Danish kroner and Swedish kronor to print paper with coupons hovering around zero this week.
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This week’s funding scorecard looks at the progress supranationals have made in their funding programmes as we hit the middle of June.
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Three SSA borrowers issued a total of £200m ($255m) of medium-term notes in response to an inquiry for three year non-call one fixed rate sterling bonds on Tuesday — which probably all sold to the same buyer — amid an uptick of paper in the currency.
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Nordic Investment Bank funding officials considered printing its $1bn bond this week inside its curve before deciding against the ruse in order to support secondary trading, with Japan Bank of International Co-operation next in line to test the vast demand for five year dollar bonds.
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The Nordic Investment Bank’s $1bn no-grow five year passed easily through the market on Tuesday. Syndicate bankers away from the trade said the market is so receptive that any top tier dollar trade at that maturity is going to succeed.
