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As Caisse des Dépôts et Consignations (CDC) returned to the sustainability bond market on Tuesday to sell its second bond in the format, fellow French agency Caisse d’Amortissement de la Dette Sociale (Cades) mandated for its own sustainability bond debut.

GlaxoSmithKlein, the UK pharmaceutical company, has refinanced dollar and sterling loans using risk-free rates, in one of the biggest transactions yet to avoid using Libor as the margin benchmark.

Chinese car manufacturer Great Wall Motors has increased the size of its loan to $700m-equivalent.

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.

Orange, the French telecommunications company, has mandated for its debut sustainability bond, as some syndicate bankers said that there was evidence that demand for environmental and socially themed debt from corporates rated investment grade was reaching worrying levels.

CNCB (Hong Kong) Investment, a subsidiary of China Citic Group, is planning to repay a $800m loan raised in 2018 after struggling to get consent from lenders for covenant waivers.

Hong Kong property developer CK Asset Holdings priced its $300m bond at a record tight level for a fixed-for-life deal on Thursday.

Investors rewarded Zhenro Properties Group for selling its first green bond this week, pumping orders into the $350m transaction and allowing the issuer to price the deal at its lowest coupon ever.

Bank of Communications used its Hong Kong arm for a tightly priced dual-tranche deal on Thursday, bringing back floating rate and fixed rate combo bonds for Chinese financial credits.

Yum China, the Mainland-based fast food franchise operator, was eyeing at least HK$17.3bn ($2.2bn) in fresh equity on Friday after giving investors some price guidance for its secondary listing in Hong Kong.

The Arab Republic of Egypt — a frequent bond issuer — has signed its first syndicated loan. Egypt’s debut in the market, bankers said, is an attempt to diversify its funding to support an expanding state budget, just months after its debut green bond was delayed due to Covid-19. Mariam Meskin reports.

A trio of European SSAs raised a combined $6bn with five year dollar benchmarks this week. Kommunalbanken, the European Stability Mechanism and Nordic Investment Bank all hit a “very deep pocket” of demand in the tenor.