Nederlandse Waterschapsbank
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Nederlandse Waterschapsbank (NWB) launched a four year green bond on Tuesday, pricing flat to its curve and clearing the way for Agence Française de Développement (AFD) to attempt to emulate the Dutch agency’s success. -
A pair of Dutch public sector borrowers are set to come to market with socially responsible investment bonds. The deals form the first wave of an approaching flood of SSA SRI borrowing.
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Caisse des Dépôts et Consignations (CDC) returned to the Swiss franc market after a four year absence on Monday, in order to refinance a Sfr250m ($250.2m) 10 year Swiss franc bond expiring in two weeks’ time — but the French agency had to pay over its euro curve for entry.
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Three European agencies and a Washington supranational tapped 10 year Australian dollar bonds this week, as the demand for long end Kangaroo paper remains healthy.
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Three agencies launched short end dollar transactions on Tuesday, two of which managed to pull their spreads into impressively tight levels.
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Agencies from the Netherlands, France and Germany are set to come to market on Tuesday for short dated dollar deals.
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The much sought after trend for green bonds to outperform conventional paper in secondary trading is now a reality, according to public sector borrowers — but perhaps only for those with enough dots on their green curves to provide a comparison.
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Oesterreichische Kontrollbank has made a triumphant return to euros on Tuesday as it printed in the currency following a more than eight year absence. Elsewhere, Nederlandse Waterschapsbank sold a small long dated euro tap — a tactic SSA bankers expect to see more of.
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This week's funding scorecard looks at the funding progress various European supranationals and agencies have made in their funding programmes as we head into the September rush.
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France, Tennet, NWB and Berlin Hyp are among the green and social bond issuers acclaimed in GlobalCapital's Sustainable and Responsible Capital Markets Awards 2017, which were announced on Tuesday in Amsterdam.
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KfW opened a new 10.5 year Australian dollar line on Wednesday, with the hope of drawing in the Kangaroo market's typical long end lender base.
