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Tuesday, 18 July 2023
June/Jul 2023 SSA Supplement

Kangaroos hold rock steady role in SSA funding despite ever-changing market

Some of the world’s leading issuers from the supranational, sovereign and agency sector took part in a virtual discussion about funding conditions and issuance approaches in mid-2023. The borrowers tell KangaNews the Kangaroo market has an increasingly structural role in their funding plans despite ever-changing demand dynamics. The New Zealand market, meanwhile, is facing up to a major regulatory risk event.

Friday, 02 September 2022
Aug/Sep 2022

Paris alignment a win-win for capital allocation

The biggest question for capital allocation in sustainable finance is how to capture externalities – most importantly the wider cost of emissions – without excessively adversely affecting performance. L-Bank acted as dual studies partner for research by graduate student David Alexander Jablonski, which finds that there may be a performance benefit from investment in a Paris Agreement-aligned portfolio.

Thursday, 10 March 2022
Feb/Mar 2022

Kangaroos hop out of the blocks in 2022

Supranational, sovereign and agency Kangaroo issuance started the new year at record pace and by late February remained on course for the busiest start to the year for a decade. Market users say a raft of supporting factors has made deal flow possible for a notably wide range of issuers and share  a cautiously optimistic outlook for the rest of 2022.

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