Emerging-Market Borrowers Raising Cash in Pounds at a Record Rate

  • Record start to a year for sales of bonds in British currency
  • Issuers raised 1.93 billion pounds in first 50 days of 2020
Photographer: Miles Willis/Bloomberg
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The U.S. dollar is still king, and the euro its main challenger, but the British pound is fast becoming a funding currency of choice for many emerging-market borrowers.