Nordic Investment Bank NIB
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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. -
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.
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Dollars burst into life on Monday with Nordic Investment Bank (NIB) and FMO opening books, as bankers away from the deals point to the ‘EIB effect’ in making the market too hot to resist.
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This week's funding scorecard looks at the progress supranationals have made in their 2019 funding programmes.
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A strong Swedish market led the City of Stockholm to place its first private trade of the year on Monday. The Skr2.5bn ($268.4m) note was its largest non-syndicated issue since 2012.
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A series of modest taps at the long end of the Australian dollar curve at the end of last week suggests that what has been a quiet market for Kangaroo bonds could soon spark into life, according to SSA funding officials.
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The socially responsible investment market in SSAs is picking up pace in 2019, with a supranational bringing a deal in a debut format and other issuers preparing inaugural trades.
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The sterling market for public sector borrowers is enjoying its best ever start to a year thanks to superlative conditions, Sonia linked debuts and a UK parliamentary vote on Brexit next week.
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The International Finance Corp sold its joint biggest sterling bond by volume with its debut Sonia-linked bond on Tuesday, adding to the flurry of trades in the format since the start of the year. But the Sonia rush is “not over yet”, according to a banker at one of the leads, with a few more on the horizon before the UK parliament votes on Theresa May's Brexit deal next week.
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Public sector borrowers could look to join the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development in pre-funding for 2019 if the market backdrop — such as volatility in the Italian government bond market — improves, said SSA bankers.
