World Bank
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World Bank proved its popularity in the Australian dollar bond market on Tuesday, selling a combination of medium and long dated debt for A$800m ($605.4m) to a wide variety of investors. -
A pair of supranational issuers nipped in on Tuesday with what are likely to be the final dollar deals of the week before a Federal Open Market Committee meeting on Wednesday — where futures prices suggest an overwhelming likelihood that the Federal Reserve’s target rate will rise.
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Two supranationals will share the three year dollar market on Tuesday, moving in ahead of the US Federal Reserve meeting on Wednesday, which is expected to lead to a rise in US interest rates.
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The World Bank has sold a new class of equity-linked bonds that can be added to the burgeoning selection of socially responsible investments.
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This week's funding scorecard looks at the funding progress supranationals have made in their funding progress by the end of January.
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One of the busiest days ever in the public sector dollar market ended with five issuers sitting on deals printed at the top end of their size targets and with pricing tightened from initial thoughts. Another borrower is already out for Thursday business and bankers predict that conditions are so “incredible” that deal flow will stay healthy into next week — no matter what policy statements incoming US president Donald Trump makes at his inauguration on Friday.
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Public sector borrowers may have to compete for demand this week with Wednesday looking likely to be one of the busiest days of the year.
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A quartet of public sector borrowers are set to cram into the front end of the dollar curve on Wednesday, as bankers outlined a triple whammy of factors driving the squeeze.
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The UK Debt Management Office has picked the maturity and timing for a scheduled bond sale later this month. Elsewhere in sterling, a pair of issuers added deals to a bumper opening week that fell just short of a record.
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A remarkable sterling deal from the European Investment Bank sparked off a week that could become a record opener for supranational and agency issuance in the currency.
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Searing conditions in the sterling market could lead to a record opening week of SSA issuance in the currency as a pair of issuers lined up deals for Friday — despite this only being a four day week.
