Danske Bank

ISS Global, the Danish cleaning and facility services company, has raised a €500m no-grow bond, its second since winning investment grade status last year.

Attendo, the Swedish healthcare provider, leapt up 46% in the first few minutes of trading on Monday morning, after its Skr4.33bn (€467m) Stockholm IPO, whose bookbuild ended on Friday, well oversubscribed.

CRH, the Irish building materials group, breezed through the new issue market on Wednesday with a deal of more than €1bn in euros and sterling.

CRH, the Irish building materials group, breezed through the bond new issue market on Wednesday with a deal of over €1bn in euros and sterling.

Alandsbanken, the Finnish banking group, has issued its first Swedish krona bond for over a year, drawing huge demand from domestic Swedish investors.

A trio of issuers from Finland and Sweden raised €3.5bn of funding in the covered bond market this week with strong receptions and limited spread concessions.

AP Moeller-Maersk, the Danish shipping conglomerate, this week issued its first benchmark euro bond since issuing a profit warning in October. Investors were price sensitive, but bankers away from the a €600m seven year trade were impressed with the book size for such a challenging story.

AP Moeller-Maersk, the Danish shipping conglomerate, has raised its first benchmark euro bond since issuing a profit warning in October, a €600m seven year trade.

Danske Bank has appointed two bankers as global co-heads of its debt capital markets business, hiring one from within and one from BNP Paribas to replace Bo Wetterstein.

Finnish real estate company Sponda has signed an €80m unsecured loan agreement with three banks to refinance its syndicated loan that matures this month.

Finland’s Municipality Finance has edged nearer to its funding goal for the year with a pair of Norwegian krone bonds, its first prints in the currency since early 2014.

Aktia Bank launched and priced its first ever Swedish krone bond on Monday, in a deal that could trigger more issuance in the currency as borrowers hunt for investor diversity.