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Ryanair, the Irish budget airline, landed a far more solid bond issue on Tuesday than shopping centre operator Unibail-Rodamco-Westfield had a day earlier, as both companies try to recover in sectors ravaged by the coronavirus pandemic.

CDP Financial, one of Canada's largest public pension asset managers, joined three other public sector borrowers in the dollar market on Tuesday to sell its debut green bond.

Société Générale was looking to issue an additional tier one (AT1) in dollars on Tuesday, as European banks find room to place risky subordinated debt despite the trickier backdrop in financial markets.

Chinese issuers Redsun Properties Group and Shandong Hi-Speed Group Co have hit the offshore bond market, grabbing a brief issuance window ahead of a public holiday on Wednesday.

Europe’s high grade corporate bond investors had an array of novel trades to consider on Monday, with debutants and a rare antipodean issuer marketing euro transactions.

Citi has promoted Ignacio Gutiérrez-Orrantia to head of EMEA banking, capital markets and advisory, replacing Phil Drury, who is relocating to San Francisco to oversee technology and communications investment banking.

Citi has replaced the former head of its EMEA alternative assets group with a promotion from within, Theo Giatrakos, who will work alongside a newly hired chairman, Didier Denat, the former head of corporate banking at Credit Suisse.

Artisan Acquisition Corp, a blank cheque company backed by Hong Kong tycoon Adrian Cheng, has tapped global investors for a $300m Nasdaq IPO.

China Mengniu Dairy Co has raised a HK$2.3bn ($296m) green loan from a group of three banks.

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Amazon grabbed headlines by pouncing opportunistically into the market and pricing an $18.5bn bond this week that included a record tight spread over Treasuries on a sustainability-labelled two year note, but the bigger story was inflation fears skewing the curve steeper.

Wells Fargo printed its debut sustainability bond this week, finally breaking its year long absence from the senior unsecured dollar market.