Crédit Agricole

Bank Nederlandse Gemeenten sold its first social bond on Wednesday, using the more captive investor base for socially responsible investments (SRI) than the usual SSA buyer crowd to achieve a tighter price.

With the hree new issues in the market this week progressing well, the SSA market seems to have put Brexit chaos in the past and returned to business as usual.

Bank of China has printed Asia’s largest green bond in a $3bn deal split between dollar, euro and CNH tranches. The landmark trade attracted strong investor demand and gave a much needed fillip to the dim sum bond market.

The European investment grade corporate bond market has been ticking along like a metronome this week, printing a steady deal a day. And encouragingly, big deals have returned.

South Korea’s Woori Bank is set to meet investors for its second dollar-denominated Basel III additional tier one bond.

South Korea’s Busan Bank is getting ready to meet investors next week before it ventures out to the offshore bond market in mid-July.

Total was able to take a clean run at the European investment grade corporate bond market on Thursday as it issued a €2.75bn dual tranche deal and attracted buyers from outside the usual corporate investor base.

A pair of European agencies tapped euro lines today in a recovering but still cautious SSA market.

Bank of China has hit the market for its multi-currency green bond, with an offshore renminbi portion in only the second time a green dim sum bond has been sold.

China National Chemical Corp held a roadshow on Tuesday in Hong Kong for banks invited to join its $12.7bn loan in general syndication, as it looks to tie up funds for its acquisition of Swiss firm Syngenta.

Bank Nederlandse Gemeenten held an investor call on Monday to gauge interest in a possible debut social bond.

Groupe SEB, the French kitchen appliance and coffee machine maker, has added three banks to its group in the syndicating of its bridge loan.