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USD 1.5 Billion 5-year World Bank Global Bond

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The World Bank (International Bank for Reconstruction and Development, IBRD, Aaa/AAA) launched a USD 1.5 billion global bond issue, its first USD benchmark since March 2006. This transaction responds to global investor demand for the highest quality fixed-income investments, against the backdrop of extreme market volatility, wider swap spreads, and an overall flight to quality. “The past several months have been a particularly

difficult period in international finance.  This deal shows that – given the right opportunity – issuers, bankers and investors can begin to rebuild a continuous and liquid market for term finance,” said World Bank Treasurer Kenneth Lay.

The bond pays a coupon of 3.5% and has a maturity of 5 years – longer than market participants believed, and recent transactions have suggested, was generally available to even highly-rated issuers.  The breadth and diversity of the order book suggests that many investors have seen the transaction as a welcome opportunity to rebuild the intermediate-maturity segment of their fixed-income portfolios.

The present transaction is consistent with the World Bank’s long-standing practice of deploying its franchise as an issuer in the international capital markets to offer liquid, well-priced instruments in times of market stress. This approach has direct benefits for World Bank member countries, as well, since this cooperative institution is able to fund its activities as a provider of financial services for its members on highly attractive terms.  In this instance, it has achieved the most attractive LIBOR-equivalent funding level for any World Bank public benchmark issued to date.

The book quickly built to approximately USD 500 million within the first hour, and closed oversubscribed at USD 1.8 billion within just seven hours. While central bank and other official institutions played a key role, the order book was well diversified both geographically and by investor type. The high quality distribution will ensure a positive secondary market performance for the bonds.

 

This transaction was joint-lead managed by Goldman Sachs, JP Morgan, and Morgan Stanley. The bonds were issued at a price of 99.564% and pay a coupon of 3.5% per annum, through semiannual payments. This gives investors a yield of 3.5955% (s.a.), equivalent to a spread of +77.75 basis points above the underlying US Treasury bond.