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Belgium achieved one of its tightest new issue premiums for years with its inaugural green bond, as green-minded investors from across Europe — and at central banks — piled into the deal on Monday.

French commercial property company Carmila returned to the investment grade bond market after two years away and received a positive response from investors for its longest maturity to date.

Before 2017, US crowd services provider Equinix had not issued a bond in euros. But it has now visited the European high yield market three times, having completed its latest deal on Wednesday.

Books for the Republic of Slovenia’s triple tranche euro bond tap were in excess of €3.6bn by lunchtime on Wednesday, with final spreads having been set for each clip. The deal is part of a liability management exercise that swaps out short dated dollar debt for longer euro denominated paper.

Five new investment grade corporate bond deals were priced on Tuesday and, while pricing was competitive, none of the issuers allowed for any growth in the size of the deals as all five used a no-grow strategy.

The Kingdom of Belgium hit the market on Monday with its long awaited first green OLO. The sovereign received strong demand for the deal, tightening its spread by 3bp and pulling in a book of €12.7bn.

The Bank of England’s annual €2bn three year dollar issue was comfortably oversubscribed on Monday, but the smaller volume of orders compared with last year and lack of price movement reflected both the greater difficulty in printing short dated deals and investor pushback against super tight swap levels, said bankers. That may have played a role in FMS Wertmanagement’s decision on Monday to mandate for a five year dollar deal, they added.

Deutsche Bank has launched the IPO of DWS, its asset management unit, on the Frankfurt Stock Exchange – a key plank of chief executive John Cryan’s plan to revive the troubled bank's fortunes.

Assystem Technologies, a French engineering specialist owned by Ardian, is launching an add-on to its term loans to fund its purchase of German peer SQS Software Quality Systems, as merger and acquisition deals gain share in the leveraged loan market.

A number of Indian issuers are preparing to head to the international debt market, as the appeal of offshore fundraising rises amid pressure in the domestic bond market.

The Kingdom of Belgium’s first green bond will be launched next week following a two week roadshow.

India's Tata Steel, which mandated a group of 21 lenders in January for a new loan, has shrunk the size of the fundraising following a blowout bond issuance.