This increased demand has been met with an equally large increase in supply as corporate
bond issuance has roughly doubled since 2008.
So, it is a very different market than it was 10 years ago, and you're going to see a lot of corporate
bond issuance as these infrastructure projects go out there, and you can capture some pretty good yields and you know what you're buying because it's a corporate bond.
S&P also notes the success of the AMNH's last
bond issuance in 2004 and its lack of additional debt in the short term.
S&P gave the AMNH's recent
bond issuance a very high AAA rating, indicating the museum's «pre-eminence» as one of the world's top natural history museums.
«You need to do the same diligence you would with any kind of financial investment,» says Ken Kirsner of Bank of America, who has helped underwrite more than 200 nonprofit
bond issuances around the country.
Treasury bill and
bond issuance are ramping up at a time when the Fed is reducing its reinvestment of maturing bond holdings.
Business credit has been falling, but this has been more than offset by increases in non-intermediated sources of funding, such as equity raisings and corporate
bond issuance.
The minister spoke with bond investors as part of preparations for a third international
bond issuance, Reuters reported, after the company placed US$ 17.5 billion in bonds last year and a US$ 9 - billion Sharia - compliant sukuk bond in April this year.
Since the mid 2000s, the available internationally comparable data suggest that average annual
bond issuance by Australian corporations has been the equivalent of just under 1 per cent of GDP, with around two - thirds of total issuance taking place offshore, rather than in the domestic market (Graph 1).
Continued foreign currency
bond issuance by Asian residents and foreign participation in local currency bond markets has contributed to this growth.
There are reasons to be optimistic about green
bond issuance in the U.S., says Katugampola, even though the incoming administration might change environmental regulations.
Compare that to just three years ago, when green
bond issuance was just over $ 10 billion.1
A China - driven surge in green
bond issuance helps pave the way for a socially responsible version of the security in the U.S.
Green
bond issuance reached record levels in the first half of this year, fueled by a first quarter surge in deals out of China.
Green -
bond issuances have been growing, even if there's no precise definition of what a «green bond» is.
The trend can be seen in both the supply of and demand for market - making services, and reflects both post-crisis cyclical conditions (such as diminished bank risk appetite and strong
bond issuance) and structural changes in the markets themselves (such as tighter risk management or regulatory constraints).
«Market participants will look back on this municipal green
bond issuance for Massachusetts, and see it as the gateway to further green bond issuances across the many states and many cities that are hoping to access less expensive funding to improve infrastructure, protect natural resources and offer renewable energy,» says Bill Daley, Managing Director in Public Finance.
Morgan Stanley's first - ever green
bond issuance and the broader growth across the market reflect what has become fertile ground for green bonds, which are similar to other fixed income instruments except that the proceeds are directed toward specific projects that address environmental issues.
Yet corporate
bond issuance has also plummeted, and regulators are slowing IPO approvals.
The resulting increase in corporate
bond issuance has pushed up swap spreads, with the spread on US 10 - year (bank / government) swaps, for example, recently at its highest level for several years (Graph 7).
As in a number of other countries,
bond issuance in Australia in recent years has shifted away from the public sector toward the private sector.
Deutsche projects a substantial but not crippling 23 % decrease in junk -
bond issuance across all developed markets this year, to $ 210 billion.
Record foreign currency
bond issuance by Australian entities in 2004 has pushed up the cost of converting foreign currency to Australian dollars and made it cheap for foreigners to do the opposite (Graph B3).
Other factors may have been a degree of illiquidity in the swap market in the face of large increases in private sector
bond issuance and rising interest rates.
Financial institutions»
bond issuance was also weaker in the December quarter, particularly issuance in offshore markets.
These concerns might recently have been exacerbated by changes in the pattern of corporate financing: in countries in which the swap spread has increased the most — the US and UK — growth in private sector
bond issuance has been relatively large, while net equity issuance has been low (or even negative as in the United States).
The pace of EM
bond issuance will be greatly curtailed, if not ceased near term.
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bond issuance and management.
Indeed, green
bond issuance ramped up significantly in 2016, and the accelerated pace is expected to continue this year.
In the first three quarters of 2017, green
bond issuance reached USD 83 billion, nearing the issuance reported by the Climate Bond Initiative for full - year 2016 (see Exhibit 1).
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To increase returns, there are several types of strong price signals government can put in place that could underpin green
bond issuance:
Energy efficiency savings also provide stable revenue streams to back
bond issuance.
On the subject of junk debt, in the first two quarters of 2014, European high yield
bond issuance outstripped U.S. issuance for the first time in history, with 77 % of the total represented by Greece, Ireland, Italy, Portugal, and Spain.
Nina Chestney, «Global green
bond issuance hit record $ 155.5 billion in 2017,» Reuters, Jan 2018.
She has advised initial purchasers in different
bond issuances by the Dominican Republic under Rule 144A Reg - S, as well as commercial financial institutions and companies in issuances of $ 1 billion, $ 300 million and $ 100 million.
Indeed, the supply of dollar
bond issuance in this year's first quarter hit record levels, and those levels don't account for the increased use of «reverse Yankee issuance,» whereby U.S. corporations issue into European markets denominated in euros.
Larger firms have, however, maintained a fairly solid pace of non-intermediated debt raisings, mainly through offshore
bond issuance.
BGC also has an outstanding
bond issuance of Senior Notes due June 15, 2042, which trade on the New York Stock Exchange under the symbol (NYSE: BGCA).
Australian non-government entities were again active in
bond issuance in the September quarter, with record activity in the domestic market and continued strong issuance into offshore markets (Table 13).
Total
bond issuance by Australian non-government entities amounted to $ 33 billion in the September quarter, in line with the June quarter and well ahead of the quarterly rate in 2002.
For example, the Bloomberg Barclays Green Bond Index, which was launched in 2014, has lagged the broad - based Barclays Global Aggregate slightly over the last three years — but keep in mind that overall returns don't account for the boom in green
bond issuance over that period.
CORPORATE FINANCING NEWS High - yield corporate
bond issuance and trading have slowed considerably in the face of uncertainty about Federal Reserve monetary policy, at a time when chairman Ben Bernanke is about to hand over the reins to Janet Yellen,...
High - yield
bond issuance slowed to $ 13.9 billion in February from $ 23.8 billion in January, according to KDP Investment Advisors.
Green
bond issuance doubled between 2015 and 2016 to $ 81 billion, and that number is on track to double again by the end of 2017.
Bond issuance activity will continue to be strong, as it was in 2012, Beyhum says.
Adding in record
bond issuance in recent years, a financing option not common in 1990s, «overall leverage is even higher today than implied by traditional measures of bank lending,» the report explained.
US high - yield
bond issuance totaled $ 27.5 billion in December, up from $ 25.6 billion in November, according to KDP Investment Advisors.
Officials also added that an upcoming
bond issuance of $ 7.86 million to fund various park projects in the next two years will not increase taxes for residents.
The United States Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has appointed a case manager to look into the petition filed by the minority in Ghana's parliament over the country's recent $ 2.25 billion
bond issuance.