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French agency Caisse des Dépôts et Consignations (CDC) hit screens on Monday afternoon with its second ever sustainability bond, following its debut in the format last year.

DZ Hyp priced a well-subscribed €1bn five year Pfandbrief on Monday through fair value and with the largest negative yield of any covered bond issued this year. The syndication is strong encouragement for hesitant issuers considering deals in this tenor, where yields are at their most punitive.

Tatjana Greil Castro has been promoted to co-head of public markets at Muzinich an investor in corporate credit.

German real estate company Vonovia priced a €1bn accelerated capital raise on Thursday to take advantage of possible growth opportunities arising from the Covid-19 pandemic. The deal was covered quickly and attracted enough demand to cover the transaction several times but execution was made complicated by a sell-off in US tech stocks on Thursday evening.

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Once Schuldschein market darlings, auto parts suppliers are beginning to look to lenders like they may be in distress. Some fear a wave of credit restructurings on the horizon, when the market's lean documentation standards are likely to be tested.

Siemens Healthineers, the German healthcare tech company, has sold €2.73bn of new stock in the largest block trade 2020 has seen so far to partly finance its $16.4bn acquisition of US cancer care solutions firm Varian. The consensus among ECM bankers is that it will be vital to execute transactions during the next few weeks, before a tempestuous US election and possible rises in Covid-19 cases spoil the party, write Sam Kerr and Aidan Gregory.

Germany received overwhelming support for its debut green bond on Wednesday, which was sold via syndication and twinned with a conventional Bund of the same maturity and coupon in what it is a brand new structure for issuing green debt.

Mercedes-Benz Auto Finance is planning to sell a Rmb6.26bn ($917m) dual tranche auto securitization transaction next week after a six-month break from the onshore market. The issuer has doubled the length of the revolving period compared to its previous outing.

All eyes in the primary euro public sector bond market are fixed on the expected arrival of Germany's green Bund this week, but there were still some other deals announced on Tuesday. Greece is sticking to its plan for a syndicated bond issuance every quarter and Berlin hopes to match the success of its compatriot Land NRW in the 30 year part of the curve.

Germany’s long promised green debut is set to come to market this week in what is turning out to be a hectic one for the green bond market.

After a period of quiet, the Schuldschein market is creaking back into life. At least four international companies have entered the market in the past week on the hunt for new debt.