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BMW Auto Finance (China) is planning a comeback to asset-backed notes on September 17, and will replicate the structure of its April debut in the market.

The prospective growth of green and sustainable covered bond funding, and the Covered Bond Directive, were key topics at the well attended European Covered Bond Council’s 30th plenary session, held in Munich on Wednesday, especially with respect to the Pfandbrief market, which celebrates its 250th anniversary this year.

The Asian Development Bank hopped on to screens on Tuesday to print a new 10.5 year green Kangaroo bond. Demand for longer dated Kangaroo bonds has been muted recently, leading to smaller transaction sizes. So introducing a green label helped the ADB feel “comfortable” with achieving its minimum issuance size, said Anthony Ruschpler, treasury specialist at the ADB in Manila.

As climate change takes hold, banks could incur losses in a very different way from what is typically captured by using credit risk modelling, delegates heard at the European Covered Bond Council’s 30th plenary meeting, held in Munich on Wednesday.

The car industry has long been a staple of the Schuldschein market, but this year more than borrowers than usual have taken a spin round the market in search of debt. The product has attracted a wide range of manufacturers, from its native Germany and the rest of Europe.

MTU Aero Engines, the German maker of aircraft engines, has issued a €515m convertible bond before being promoted to Germany’s Dax benchmark index later this month.

LBBW issued a well subscribed €650m nine year public sector loan-backed Pfandbrief on Monday at a relatively tight new issue concession compared with many recent negative yielding covered bonds.

Commerzbank attracted only €700m of demand for a €500m non-preferred senior bond this week, with a lead manager suggesting the deal showed the ‘state of the market’ as it welcomes an influx of tightly priced supply.

The Netherlands Development Finance Company (FMO), made its Uzbekistani som debut this week to take advantage of funds flowing into EM currencies thanks to low rates in dollars. Elsewhere, euro investors are looking at the ultra-long end of the SSA market.

Volumes in other syndicated loan markets may be down, but bankers in the Schuldschein market have rather more to crow about. Derided though it may be for being antique and parochial, it has nonetheless managed to attract an impressive number of debut entrants this year and is set to break the record volumes of 2017.

A manic Wednesday night of block trades capped off a good week for ECM volume as sellers took advantage of a positive market environment.

Erste Group and Crédit Agricole competed for covered bond investors’ attention at the long end of the curve on Wednesday with a rise in yields helping boost demand, particularly for the Austrian deal which started with a generous spread. At the same time Deutsche Hypo issued a three year.