Europe

KfW hit the market with an impressive green bond this week, raising a record €4bn of eight year paper and paying only 1bp of new issue concession to do so.

Investors put in a staggering $60bn of orders for an accelerated offering of Tencent Holdings’ stock on Wednesday, a deal that saw Dutch internet company Prosus taking home HK$114.17bn ($14.67bn) from a record-breaking overnight share sale. Jonathan Breen reports.

Renewable energy IPOs are being launched thick and fast in Spain despite the recent selloff of green energy stocks.

German retailer TEDi has launched a Schuldschein, in the first deal to hit the market since the Easter break.

Citi has filled the covered bond and SSA research analyst spot that was vacated by Michael Spies when he moved to DCM. Meanwhile, Commerzbank has lost a research analyst.

Dutch internet company Prosus is looking to pocket up to HK$114.17bn ($14.67bn) from an accelerated sale of shares in Tencent Holdings.

Portugal began the price discovery process for its new 10 year syndicated bond on Wednesday close to fair value in an effort to give as much clarity to investors as possible on the final level, according to lead managers.

Allfunds, the UK-based B2B wealth platform, launched an IPO to list on the Amsterdam stock exchange on Wednesday.

Canada’s Office of the Superintendent of Financial Institutions has removed the temporary increase of the covered bond issuance limit mirroring the Bank of Canada’s earlier decision to remove covered bonds as an eligible asset for repo funding.

FastBall Holdings, an investor consortium led by KKR, has offloaded a portion of the stake in Flutter Entertainment it received in December as part of the Irish gaming conglomerate’s buyout of FanDuel Group, the US fantasy sports company.

Neoen, the French renewable energy company, said on Wednesday that it had received huge levels of demand for its €600m rights issue, proving that the right companies in the renewable energy sector can still attract a strong following among equity investors despite recent turbulence in green stocks.

Romania this week returned to the international debt markets to issue euro-denominated bonds.