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World Bank hired banks on Tuesday to lead a new 40 year euro sustainable development bond — the supranational’ s longest ever benchmark in the currency. The deal will be the latest example of public sector borrowers venturing longer in the euro market this year.

Zurich Insurance Company attracted plenty of demand in dollars on Tuesday, as it sold first subordinated dollar trade in over two years — a deal that could fund its acquisition of Metropolitan Life’s US property and casual business.

Chinese electric vehicle manufacturer Nio is tapping the equity-linked market for a jumbo convertible bond, as it looks to add more to its coffers just a month after a multi-billion-dollar share sale.

The first public deals of the year in the long end of the euro curve from the supranational and agency sector arrived on Monday, with the trades receiving huge demand and pricing exceptionally tight to secondary levels.

Aroundtown, the Frankfurt-listed property company, opened 2021’s corporate hybrid capital issuance on Monday. More subordinated deals are already being lined up.

Fundamentals are becoming more important again in Europe’s corporate bond primary market, but the power of the European Central Bank technical trade in the secondary market is quickly washing away any new issue concessions issuers have to give.

Green and sustainability-linked convertible bonds are poised to enter the mainstream, following a year of rapid growth in the asset class.

A burst of mandates on Monday confirmed what many market participants had expected: a rise in emerging market corporate bond supply.

LBBW and Banque Fédérative du Crédit Mutuel (BFCM) were met with muted demand on Monday morning as the pair ventured into a busier, yet weaker market in search of senior non-preferred debt.

Linklogis, a technology-based supply chain finance company, is planning to float in Hong Kong, and has filed a draft IPO prospectus with the city’s stock exchange.

CPPIB Capital mandated the banks to lead its first ever 20 year euro benchmark on Friday, in what is also the first mandate announcement for a benchmark transaction by a non-sovereign/sub-sovereign public sector borrower in the long end of the euro curve in 2021.

Banco Sabadell cut a lone figure on Friday as it ventured out into a quieter market to print a €500m tier two — its first bond since the proposed merger with BBVA fell through last November,