Europe

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.

Equity capital market participants cheered the publication on Wednesday of former EU commissioner Jonathan Hill's review of London listing rules. The report, written on behalf of the UK Treasury, recommended sweeping changes in order to attract more companies to the London Stock Exchange. On Thursday, Deliveroo, the food delivery company, announced it would be listing in London.

Xtrion, the majority shareholder of Belgian semi-conductor company Melexis, sold 1.4m shares in Melexis on Tuesday night. The sale was part of an overall 1.7m package sold to investors in order to increase the Belgian firm's freefloat in the hope that it will join the country's benchmark stock indices.

SR Boligkreditt issued its largest and longest covered bond on Wednesday, at the tightest spread it has achieved in more than three years, slightly inside fair value.

Belfius Bank is looking to amend the terms and conditions of one of its tier twos so that it can remain eligible for the minimum requirements for own funds and eligible liabilities (MREL). The bond was issued with risk factor language under English law but will now need to be updated to reflect the UK’s departure from the EU.

North Macedonia launched a new bond in euros on Wednesday, following deals last week from fellow central and eastern European sovereigns issuers, Serbia and Croatia.

EDP Renováveis, the Portuguese renewable energy company, priced a €1.5bn capital increase on Tuesday night. The trade will help the company fund expansion and attracted strong demand, but it had to offer a big discount as fears over rising bond yields continued to cast a shadow over the sector.

Market participants will be reassessing the role of deposit guarantee schemes in European Union bank bailouts after this week’s ruling by the European Court of Justice that the 2014 rescue of Banca Tercas should have been upheld as lawful.

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.

Belgian football club Club Brugge is teeing up an IPO on Euronext Brussels that will see the side join the small ranks of listed European football clubs.

Italy picked the banks to lead its debut green bond on Tuesday after unveiling its sovereign green framework to investors last week.

UK chancellor of the exchequer Rishi Sunak is preparing to unveil his latest budget on Wednesday. Leaks point to a package of tax hikes and spending cuts. But a repeat of the discredited model that the Conservative Party, of which he is a member, embraced to tackle the 2008-2009 financial crisis would miss a huge opportunity to finance growth just when borrowing costs are as low as they will ever be. Austerity will prove a false economy that drives investment elsewhere.