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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.

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

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Europe’s high grade corporate market continued to offer plenty of demand for riskier structures this week, with multiple hybrids again taking up screen space.

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.

The Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank (AIIB) returned to the market this week to place two more deals, as it ramps up its MTN issuance following a debut in Hong Kong dollars last Friday.

KBC was marketing a fixed-to-floating rate note on Thursday. Strong demand allowed it to tighten pricing by 15bp during execution.

Singapore’s Oversea-Chinese Banking Corp (OCBC) raised $1bn from a tier two subordinated note on Wednesday that was priced at a new low.

The top investment banks will achieve substantially higher returns on equity this year, predicts analytics firm Coalition, after revenues in fixed income, currencies and commodities (FICC) soared in the first half of the year.

The European Stability Mechanism hit dollar the market on Wednesday with a five year benchmark — its fourth ever in the currency. Two Nordic issuers are set to follow suit on Thursday.

Germany received overwhelming support for its debut green bond on Wednesday, which was sold via syndication and twinned with a conventional Bund of the same maturity and coupon in what it is a brand new structure for issuing green debt.

South Korea’s Big Hit Entertainment, the manager of K-pop boy band BTS, is set to launch an IPO worth up to W962.6bn ($811.7m) later this month.