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1 week ago | 
ifre.com | Burhan Khadbai
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2 weeks ago | 
zawya.com | Burhan Khadbai
Local currency emerging market bonds are delivering huge gains this year thanks to a weakening US dollar and improving fundamentals in developing countries. By the close of June 3, EM local debt had delivered a total return of 9.69% year to date, according to the JP Morgan EM local GBI Index – far surpassing any high-yielding fixed-income asset class, including EM hard currency debt.
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1 month ago | 
omfif.org | Burhan Khadbai
After Ukraine failed to reach an agreement to restructure $2.6bn of debt tied to economic performance in April 2025, both itself and its warrant holders must now seriously evaluate the product’s viability and how to move forward. Ukraine was one of several debt management offices represented along with multilateral development banks and asset managers at OMFIF’s annual global sovereign debt forum on 13 May in London.
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2 months ago | 
omfif.org | Burhan Khadbai
The European Investment Bank has been at the forefront of guiding and advancing the green and sustainable bond market, becoming the first issuer of a green bond back in 2007. Now the EIB has met another significant milestone by issuing the largest transaction so far under a new regulation for green bonds, dubbed the premium standard for the market.
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Mar 28, 2025 | 
omfif.org | Burhan Khadbai
As Europe embarks on ambitious plans to boost its spending in defence and security in the light of curtailed support from the US, the big question is how this will be funded in a sustainable manner. This was discussed at OMFIF Sovereign Debt Institute’s 2025 Public sector debt summit earlier this month in Paris.
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Mar 18, 2025 | 
omfif.org | Burhan Khadbai
Wider spreads and volatility have been named as the biggest concerns for borrowers in the year ahead, according to OMFIF’s 2025 Public sector debt outlook survey. The annual survey of global sovereign, supranational and agency borrowers provides a detailed outlook on funding programmes, sustainable issuance, primary dealers, distribution of bonds, role of non-banks and more. This year’s survey was completed by 32 SSAs, comprising some of the biggest and most prestigious issuers in the market.
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Mar 6, 2025 | 
omfif.org | Burhan Khadbai
Despite risks stemming from US President Trump’s administration, sovereign issuers in Latin America have made a record start in 2025 for their funding in the international debt capital markets. The market for sovereign issuers in this region was discussed at OMFIF’s Sovereign Debt Institute’s Latin America sovereign debt outlook in February 2025.
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Feb 5, 2025 | 
omfif.org | Burhan Khadbai
The UK Debt Management Office’s first public sale of the year impressed with an unprecedented level of demand despite a huge sell-off in gilts over recent months. On 21 January, the UK DMO raised £8.5bn via a syndicated re-opening of the 4.4% 2040 gilt led by Deutsche Bank, JP Morgan, Morgan Stanley, Nomura and RBC Capital Markets.
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Jan 30, 2025 | 
omfif.org | Burhan Khadbai
Greece’s first publicly sold bond transaction in January 2025 was by far the biggest statement in its journey over the past decade to regain trust and credibility with investors in the capital markets. Not only did Greece achieve a record order book in terms of size at over €40.5bn, it was also the biggest by the number of investors with over 270 accounts submitting orders.
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Jan 1, 2025 | 
omfif.org | Burhan Khadbai
A combination of factors will result in spreads continuing to widen well into 2025 for the European public sector bond market. These include high supply, geopolitical risk, political uncertainty and the end of the European Central Bank’s quantitative tightening programme. At an OMFIF event hosted in partnership with LBBW, funding officials and fixed-income portfolio managers examined the outlook for European sovereign, supranational and agency borrowers for the year ahead.
