BNP Paribas

Deutsche Bahn, the German state railway company, launched a £300m bond at a wafer thin spread on Wednesday, but investor demand still more than twice covered the deal.

ANZ returned to the euro market with a tier twovlinked to the UN’s sustainable development goals (SDG) this week — going on to print a deal that was over three times covered at guidance.

The Republic of Slovenia sold its longest ever bond issue on Wednesday, just three weeks after it sold a €2bn deal. The bid for duration was evident as investors piled in with more than €4bn of orders.

IDB Invest, the private sector arm of the Inter-American Development Bank, is preparing to issue the first bond under its new sustainability debt framework.

More Chinese real estate borrowers headed to the dollar bond market on Tuesday, as bankers tackle a supply rush in the lead up to the Chinese New Year holidays in mid-February.

The Republic of Slovenia is set to sell its longest bond ever on Tuesday, picking banks for a 60 year euro benchmark — a 36 year extension of its curve.

BNP Paribas is set to redeem one of its legacy tier one bonds in full this quarter, as more banks follow recent guidance from the European Banking Authority and clear out old capital instruments.

Flex, the US-Singapore electronic component maker, has signed a $2bn revolving credit facility, in what leads are describing as the first ESG-linked syndicated revolving credit facility for the US technology sector.

BNP Paribas has hired veteran banker Rahul Mundra to its loan syndication team in India.

Solid demand from investors for Woori Bank's sustainable bond on Monday allowed the South Korean borrower to price its $550m deal at an ultra-tight spread.

Indonesia's Tower Bersama Infrastructure took an aggressive pricing approach to a tap of its dollar bond on Monday. But when investor response fell short of expectations, the issuer was forced to pull its fundraising.

Europe’s corporate bond investors had the chance to pick up some paper from the hairier end of their credit spectrum as this week began, with Portuguese power company Energias de Portugal and Swedish housing firm Heimstaden Bostad out with hybrid capital issues.