UK Sovereign
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DirectBooks, a platform for primary bond issuance initiated by a group of banks, has added the ability to handle euro and sterling deal announcements as well as a new senior member of staff to run its European business. -
The UK Debt Management Office has selected the banks to lead the first syndicated transaction of its 2021/2022 borrowing programme.
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Government bonds around the world were hit by a wave of selling on Friday morning without an obvious trigger from new data or central bank policy updates. However, traders believe a heavy supply schedule and news of increasing deficits are likely to blame.
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The UK issued its second ever sukuk on Thursday, raising more than double the amount it had with the first in 2014.
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The UK Debt Management Office on Monday chose the banks to lead the sale of its second sukuk via syndication. Like the sovereign’s debut sukuk in 2014, none of the UK’s Islamic banks are included on the mandate.
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The SSA market on Thursday was digesting the result of the previous night’s Federal Reserve meeting. Fed chair Jerome Powell took a dovish stance in spite of high economic growth, and some market participants believe that the strengthening inflation outlook could hurt demand for bonds at the long end of the curve.
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The UK Debt Management Office has published its Gilt operations calendar for the first quarter of its 2021/22 financial year.
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One big crisis should be enough for anyone's career. But Sir Robert Stheeman, chief executive of the UK's Debt Management Office, has had to face two monumental financial catastrophes in the last 13 years — first the 2008 UK banking crisis and then last year's pandemic.
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Gilt-Edged Market Makers (GEMMs) and investors expressed their support for the UK Debt Management Office to issue a new 30 year Gilt as the first syndication of its new 2021/22 financial year.
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The UK’s monetary policy will officially be designed to fight climate change from now on, after chancellor of the exchequer Rishi Sunak changed the Bank of England’s mandate this week, delighting sustainable finance campaigners.
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Senior market participants welcomed the announcement of the UK Infrastructure Bank’s creation in this week’s Budget speech. While it is unlikely to tap capital markets in the near future, bankers hope the bank will evolve into a major government agency borrower that prints socially responsible bonds to help in the UK’s goal to reach net zero carbon emissions by 2050.
