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Switzerland’s Sucafina has renewed its $300m syndicated loan, with all 11 banks that lent to the coffee trader’s debut in 2017 rejoining the deal as bankers say there is still not enough business to go around.

Marel, the Icelandic meat processing machinery company, has secured cornerstone orders from BlackRock and Credit Suisse Asset Management for its €350m IPO on Euronext Amsterdam.

Triton International, a global shipping container firm based in Bermuda, has amended and extended a $1.25bn revolving credit facility, cutting its debt cost in the process.

The Netherlands got a huge reception for its highly anticipated inaugural green bond on Tuesday, with a final book of over €20bn that allowed the sovereign to issue at the upper end of its target.

Tennet, the Dutch electricity transmission company and frequent green bond issuer, returned to the public bond market on Monday, after nearly a year away. It offered benchmark 11 and 20 year euro tranches.

AAA Oils and Fats (AAAOF), a trading subsidiary of palm oil processor and distributor Apical Group, is seeking to amend and extend the revolving credit facility tranche of a $800m borrowing from 2017.

Vesteda, the Dutch housing company, proved there was plenty of hunger for green bonds on Thursday, when its first issue of the kind, a €500m no-grow eight year, hoovered up orders to finish six times oversubscribed.

The strength of corporate bond demand, after falls in stockmarkets engendered by the US's hardened stance on trade talks with China, will be tested in the US on Wednesday by a $20bn issue for IBM. In Europe, the test could come on Thursday, since a handful of issuers finished roadshows on Wednesday.

Barclays Bank kept the primary covered bond market alive on Wednesday, launching its first deal of the year and its first Sonia-linked transaction — though at £500m it was the bank’s smallest covered bond yet.

ASR Nederland is planning a 30 year non-call 10 tier two bond issue, it said on Wednesday, as looks to finance its recent acquisition of disability specialist Loyalis.

ABN Amro tapped into bank investors’ thirst for yield amid low interest rates this week with a 20 year covered bond. The Dutch deal followed a previous 20 year from MünchenerHyp (MuHyp) and comes as European investors are increasingly under pressure to reach for yield.

ABN Amro returned to the covered bond market on Monday to issue the largest 20 year transaction so far in 2019. Banks have increasingly found favour in placing deals with the ultra-long maturities, amid renewed speculation that the European Central Bank could restart asset purchases.