Barclays

Barclays was looking to add to the £4.8bn equivalent of senior funding it has done this year with a sterling deal in a ‘hot’ tenor on Friday. The deal arrived as Mark Carney, the governor of the Bank of England, talked about a rise in interest rates in the near term.

Nearly three months without Masala bond issuance has left investors hungry. But Indian Renewable Energy Development Agency gave investors something healthy to chew on this week — using the structure to sell a Rp19.5bn ($297m) green bond.

Northumbrian Water brought the first sterling corporate bond of the week when it announced a £300m 10 year deal on Thursday. It was almost a year to the day that it priced an identical deal.

Dollar borrowers failed to take advantage of pent-up demand and tightening spreads as US corporate bond supply recorded a lacklustre end to the month.

Total, the French oil company, has been a frequent issuer of euro bonds, raising €7bn in 2016 and more than €5bn in each of the two previous years. However, it waited until the last week of September to sell its first new issue in euros in 2017.

Automotive finance companies rarely issue corporate bonds with tenors longer than four or five years, due to the assets they need to fund. This week, however, three of them sold five year bonds.

Public sector borrowers this week smashed through their conventional curves with green bond issues. But there was some debate over whether this marks the start of a trend or is merely the product of scorching conditions in both the euro and dollar markets.

The European Bank for Reconstruction and Development on Thursday rounded out a busy week for green bond issuance with yet another deal that was covered before books officially opened.

On Thursday, Northumbrian Water brought the first sterling corporate bond of the week when it announced a £300m 10 year deal. It is almost a year to the day that it priced an identical deal.

Indian Renewable Energy Development Agency (Ireda) launched its long anticipated green Masala bond on Thursday, just days after the country’s regulators re-opened the tap for offshore rupee issuance.

A glut of short end dollar issuance this week is set to ramp up on Thursday, after a pair of rare names in the currency mandated on Wednesday. The trades will follow a strong showing from Finnvera after the Finnish agency — also an uncommon name in dollars — printed its largest ever trade in the currency.

KfW has punched through its conventional curve with a dollar green bond that left bankers away from the trade a similar colour of envy. More SRI supply is on the way, after the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development hit screens for Thursday’s business.