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Schuldschein borrowers, with the help of arranging banks, are for the first time offering different pricing ranges on issues of fixed and floating rates, as the market tries to find ways of dealing with the prolonged period of negative interest rates.

NIBC Bank said on Tuesday that its risk-weighted asset base would grow by more than €1bn, as a result of the European Central Bank’s targeted review of internal models (TRIM). Model changes demanded by the Dutch regulator made its common equity tier one (CET1) ratio slump from 18.5% to 16.1%.

Porsche AG, maker of Porsche sports cars, has returned to the Schuldschein market, on the hunt for funds for research and development into electric cars, among other green projects.

Switzerland’s Ameropa has signed a $600m revolving credit facility, with the privately owned agricultural business bumping up the size of its syndicated bank line and bank group.

The rally set off European Central Bank president Mario Draghi's assertion on Tuesday that further quantitative easing was possible, if not probable, had reached a level by Wednesday that astonished bankers. Three investment grade companies took advantage that day with benchmark bond issues, while one brought a tap.

Akash Garg is set to join BNP Paribas to trade emerging market credit next month.

German agriculture, energy, logistics and services group BayWa printed a €500m five year green bond on Monday, building a strong €750m book — despite some ambiguity about how to treat the unrated corporate.

Five senior members of ING's emerging markets and loans teams in London have left the bank, according to sources close to the matter, as part of the bank's broader restructuring of its debt capital markets and advisory operations.

Engie, the French electricity and gas group rated A3/A-/A, chose an otherwise quiet Friday in the European corporate bond market to issue a €1.5bn eight and 20 year green bond. The deal was more than twice oversubscribed.

A structure developed in the loan market, in which a company’s financing margin can be lowered during the life of the deal if it improves its environmental, social and governance credentials, has crossed over into the Schuldschein market. That raises the possibility it could make the leap to the bond market, write Silas Brown and Jon Hay.

With equities in green, Thursday was a fair sailing day for corporate bond issues in Europe, and five issuers took advantage, including two French names and two Swedish. Demand was strong and terms tight.

It's not often a €1.75bn deal from Volkswagen Leasing is overshadowed in the corporate bond market, though that was the case on Wednesday with Berkshire Hathaway's £1.75bn 20 and 40 year stormer. But Berkshire left euros clear for Volkswagen - it only had Bright Food of China to compete with.