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Germany has picked banks for its eagerly awaited 30 year green bond. Bankers expect the deal to go well since it will be one of the rare German syndications to offer a positive yield.

Allied Irish Banks (AIB) sold its sophomore green bond on Monday, printing €750m of senior paper at a spread flat to fair value and close its Irish peers.

African Export-Import Bank launched a dual tranche dollar bond on Monday morning, with orders exceeding $3bn by midday. Emerging market bank issuers have been especially active in recent month thanks to attractive credit conditions.

Guandong Haid Group Co, a Chinese agricultural and animal husbandry company, is in the loan market with its debut offshore borrowing of up to $400m.

Hong Kong's embattled Cathay Pacific Airways is gauging the market’s response for a new dollar bond, its first international outing in more than two decades.

Cement company Nuvoco Vistas Corp is planning a Rp50bn ($681.5m) listing, having filed draft IPO documents with the Indian regulator.

Three regular dollar bond issuers from China were the first out of the gates to tap investors on Thursday following a long holiday in the Mainland.

KB Kookmin Card raised $300m from its debut in the offshore dollar bond market this week, using a sustainability-labelled deal to add further momentum to the asset class.

BOC Aviation has raised $250m from a tap of bonds sold just last month, finding solid support from US investors for its comeback.

Green bonds took centre stage in the US corporate bond market this week, as issuance began to mount again after the recess for earnings blackouts. No less than three deals paired green and conventional tranches.

Emirates telecom provider Etisalat landed in the euro market with a bond on Thursday, raising €1bn across two tranches in a currency that is fast becoming a home for EM borrowers.

The demand for sustainability-linked bonds was made clear on Thursday, as French minerals company Imerys’s deal commanded more than double the demand of Swedish property firm Sagax’s conventional trade, despite sharing big similarities.