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The launch this week of the Climate Transition Finance Handbook has propelled the sustainable debt market towards a new era, in which the emphasis moves from a labelled security to the issuer itself, writes Jon Hay.

Two European banks ventured across the Atlantic this week to tap a dollar market that has remained open for business going into mid-December.

HSBC returned to the additional tier one (AT1) market this week after a two year absence. It was marketing a dollar deal that it intends to use to fund the redemption of some of its outstanding preference shares.

Chinese detergent maker Blue Moon Group has raised HK$9.8bn ($1.27bn) from its Hong Kong IPO, which saw a strong turnout from global and local investors.

Deutsche Bank is joining the ranks of banks that tie their top managers’ bonuses to sustainability targets, highlighting the fact that there is great variety in how this is done among leading investment banks.

Vesync, a home appliance retailer, kicked off the roadshow for its up to HK$1.55bn ($200.1m) IPO in Hong Kong on Monday, with the company's growth story during the pandemic expected to appeal to investors.

Banks bombarded the dollar market this week with a rich variety of trades in what promises to be a busy run-in to the end of the year with investors still in the hunt for primary deals.

Blue Moon Group, a Chinese detergent maker, saw the book for its up to HK$9.8bn ($1.3bn) IPO covered within hours of opening on Friday.

Indonesian textile products manufacturer Sri Rejeki Isman, better known as Sritex, is planning to extend a dollar loan closed in 2019 by two years.

Banca Monte dei Paschi di Siena led a trio of speculative grade Italian banks into the euro bond market this week, as credit investors showed that no issuers were off limit in their increasingly desperate search for yield. Tyler Davies reports.

Volkswagen International Finance “aggressively” priced through its secondary curve when it issued a €500m medium term note on Tuesday.

Sub-investment grade Italian lenders Banco BPM and Illimity Bank were well-supported in the euro bond market on Thursday, as investors showed they were more than happy to look at riskier names in their search for yield.