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  • Subordinated debt issuance this week hit its highest year to date volume since 2007, and for the first time this year it actually felt like it, with two tier two deals hitting the market and breaking the dominance of senior unsecured. Covered bonds were also busy, with five deals, and while senior was quieter, it was still active, with Banco Comercial Português returning to the market on Wednesday.
  • ING followed Swedbank into the tier two market on Tuesday, printing a tight €1.5bn 12 year non-call seven deal as tier two debt stole the limelight from senior unsecured for the first time this year.
  • Rumours of potential additional tier one issuance from Nordic banks continued on Monday as Swedbank tapped demand for subordinated paper among yield-hungry fixed income investors to replace maturing tier two debt.
  • Almost a year after blazing a trail with the first ever post-crisis additional tier one capital trade, Spanish banking giant BBVA this week proved just how far the asset class has come, moving into euros and finding just shy of €14bn of demand for its equity conversion deal, much of it from continental European institutional investors, writes Will Caiger-Smith.
  • It's great when a plan comes together, especially in times like these, when the plan involves recapitalising Europe's crisis-weary banks with a high-yielding but risky instrument that could potentially lose you a lot of money.
  • An unwelcome spotlight on the Austrian banking sector did not stop Raiffeisen Bank International from shaving 20bp off the initial pricing thoughts for its €500m 11 year non-call six tier two deal on Thursday.