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Berlin Hypothekenbank is readying the market’s first Green Pfandbrief and is likely to launch the bond on Monday or Tuesday next week. Analysts expect there to be a minimal spread difference between the borrower’s green and conventional curves.

UniCredit Czech and Slovakia has set the final spread for the first covered bond to be backed by a mix of Czech and Slovakian mortgages. The bond has been expected since the borrower first met investors on a roadshow in November.

Turkish banks finally look set to become a feature of the covered bond market this year as Akbank lines up its first euro-denominated benchmark. The bank still needs to finalise its cross currency swap arrangements, a funding official told The Cover, but a deal could emerge in a matter of weeks not months.

Société Générale issued and retained over €5bn of covered bonds, spread over eight deals with maturities between six and 15 years on Monday. The supply provides contingency backstop liquidity for the bank, and forms a normal part of its liquidity management activity.

The mortgage cover pool backing Aareal Bank’s Pfandbriefe is expected to grow by roughly a fifth following its integration with the assets originated by Corealcredit, according to Commerzbank research analysts. The German exposure will rise, as will the proportion of residential loans.

UniCredit Czech Republic and Slovakia has returned to the covered bond market after first roadshowing in November. The bank has mandated two leads this time round and will be hoping to capture an international investor base with the first covered bond to be backed by a mix of Czech and Slovakian mortgages.

Sparebanken Vest Boligkreditt priced the first Norwegian covered bond of 2015 flat to its existing curve on Wednesday. The deal illustrates that rare issuers from core regions are still able to get superb execution despite the more skittish tone in credit markets lately.

KBC priced its second €1bn covered bond of the year on Wednesday, this time opting for a 2021 which fits neatly into the borrower’s maturity profile and dips into mid-swaps negative territory for the first time. The deal also priced almost flat to its curve.

Van Lanschot Bankiers printed its inaugural conditional passthrough covered bond on Tuesday. A good quality book and a well flagged deal helped the issuer price flat to NIBC’s recent trade. Bankers said it paid a minimum market entry premium to make a successful debut.

Van Lanschot Bankiers is expected to open books on Tuesday for its inaugural conditional pass through covered bond. The first Norwegian deal of the year could be announced soon. Meanwhile Berlin Hyp is on the road with its Green covered bond.

Northern Rock Asset Management (NRAM) announced on Monday that it expects a meeting, to be held in relation to a previously announced covered bond tender offer, to be quorate.

Deutsche Pfandbriefbank (pbb), the German Pfandbriefe issuer that will be privatised this year, said it expects to make a first quarter profit of €45m, even after writing down 50% of its exposure to Heta Asset Resolution.