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The City of Bremen was heavily undersubscribed as it came to the market with an eight year bond on Thursday, in what is the region’s second consecutive public deal that has failed to reach full subscription.

National Bank of Greece (NBG) has become the lowest rated bank to issue green debt, after winning two times as much demand as it needed for a €500m senior bond on Thursday. The trade formed part of a flurry of green issuance in the FIG market, alongside new deals from Banque Fédérative du Crédit Mutuel and Mizuho Financial Group.

Eureden, a French food co-operative, has signed about €550m of sustainability linked loans, with part of the money earmarked for acquisitions.

Singapore’s DBS Bank ventured into the Kangaroo market on Wednesday in search of tier two debt. Though Australian dollar tier two volumes have remained stable year on year, there is a marked decline in offshore issuance so far in 2020.

National Bank of Greece (NBG) is set to become the first Greek financial institution to issue a green bond, after announcing plans for a new green senior deal on Wednesday.

Aareal Bank sold the first bank bond in euros for a week on Wednesday, offering encouragement to other issuers who have remained stuck in the pipeline.

Singaporean sovereign wealth fund Temasek made a successful return to the dollar bond market on Tuesday, raising $2.75bn from 10 year, 30.5 year and 50 year bonds.

French agency Caisse d'Amortissement de la Dette Sociale returned to the euro social bond market on Tuesday, equalling its impressive achievement earlier this month to print another €5bn deal.

Two CEEMEA issuers, Egypt and Hungary's Mol, are in the market this week to raise funding. According to experts, issuers are eager to get their funding in before expected geopolitical and coronavirus-related volatility impacts markets.

Mongolia returned to the dollar bond market on Monday, ending a nearly three year hiatus. The sovereign borrower pulled off a $600m liability management exercise that has taken care of the country’s upcoming bond maturities.

Experian Finance, a credit scoring company, was out in the sterling bond market on Monday as a slew of euro corporate bond mandates hit screens. But the flurry is unlikely to lift a lacklustre September and a final quarter issuance window stymied by the US election means that analysts expect euro debt volumes to be almost flat on 2019.

Caisse d’Amortissement de la Dette Sociale is set to return to the social bond market in euros after setting the size record for the format in the currency earlier this month — a feat it also recently achieved in the dollar market.