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  • Europe’s high grade corporate investors had their pick of US risk on Wednesday, with a trio of names raising €5.2bn of debt across seven tranches.
  • German commercial real estate company DIC Asset has launched its second Schuldschein, for an initial target of €100m, according to a term sheet distributed to investors. The debt’s margins will be tied to the proportion of green assets the borrower has on its balance sheet. Most notably, there is a ‘fast track’ settlement date for banks needing to secure assets before an ECB funding deadline that falls at the end of this month.
  • Enel, the Italian power and gas company, proved that demand still exists in euros for chunky hybrid debt with a €2.2bn dual tranche deal on Wednesday that saw more than three times oversubscription at peak demand and offered no new issue concession.
  • Austrian paper and packaging company Mayr-Melnhof Karton has sold €1bn of long-dated Schuldscheine, in the first transaction of that size this year. The deal, which will fund acquisitions in Finland and Poland, showcases the high amounts and attractive structures companies can achieve due to a supply and demand imbalance in the German private placement market.
  • Europe’s syndicated loan market is demanding more of borrowers seeking sustainability-linked financing. Recent history shows the bond market lags the loan market on sustainability-linked financing innovation, suggesting investors would do well to pay attention to what is happening in the lending market.
  • Fixed income investors will have a chance to pick up unrated sustainable corporate bonds this week, as Belgian private equity firm Gimv has mandated banks.