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The European Investment Bank will look to extend the Sonia-linked floating rate note curve on Tuesday with a seven year trade. On-looking bankers welcomed the development but said it would not lead to a rush of issuers heading for that part of the curve.

China real estate companies Zhenro Properties Group and China Evergrande Group started the new month with fresh dollar deals at the end of last week, marking Zhenro’s fourth trade of the year and Evergrande’s second.

Haitong International Securities has boosted an offshore borrowing to HK$16bn ($2bn) after receiving strong demand during the syndication.

Dollar bond supply from China continues unabated. China Vanke Co and Agile Group Holdings joined their real estate peers in a recent spree, raising $1.1bn between them, while science park operator TUS-Holdings priced a $350m dollar bond.

Dollar swap spreads tightened dramatically in the middle of the week — with bankers at a loss to explain why — but the SSA sector was still “rock solid” in one syndicate head’s words, so the currency should be open for business next week. The only two dollar trades this week — a bond market return from CDP Financial and first deal of the year from Erste Abwicklungsanstalt — both went well.

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The Spanish Treasury is studying the possibility of issuing green bonds — a shift from its previous position on the format — after the country’s government last week outlined a series of measures to decarbonise the economy by 2050. Spain is also adjusting its inflation-linked bond issuance strategy this year. If the sovereign does decide to issue green bonds, it is likely to find strong demand, with one of its own debt issues as well as a returning Spanish region this week being heavily oversubscribed.

The first issuer representing the United Arab Emirates (UAE) as a federal entity came to market this week. The deal was part of a trio from the Middle East, none of which offered investors anything in the way of new issue concession.

Futu Holdings, theparent of Hong Kong-based Futu Securities International, has hit the road with an up to $130.8m Nasdaq IPO. The firm has cut the size of its float amid shaky markets, but the deal is still being used as a yardstick by its larger competitor Tiger Brokers, which is snapping at Futu’s heels with its own US listing. Jonathan Breen reports.

Poland is in the market for its most ambitious green bonds yet. It has opened books for two tranches of euro debt, hitting the 10 and 30 year maturity buckets.

China’s Hefei Guoxuan High-Tech Power Energy and Bank of Communications Financial Leasing are both raising dollar loans. But while Guoxuan is tapping offshore liquidity, Bocom Leasing is targeting onshore banks.