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Two SSA borrowers tapped the seven year part of the euro curve this week, but came away with different results. Luxembourg received an oversubscribed book for its deal on Wednesday, while Nederlandse Waterschapsbank (NWB Bank) had to price without fully placing its €1bn trade.

Investors staged a protest over pricing in the non-preferred senior bond market this week, causing one transaction to fail and putting two others at risk of falling flat. Comfortable with their returns for 2019 and happy to be able to choose from a glut of new bond offerings, funds have simply been happy to divert their attention elsewhere. Tyler Davies reports.

La Banque Postale is looking to strengthen its capital position with a new additional tier one bond, beginning investor meetings on Friday. The issuer joins a growing trend towards issuers employing six month par call options in their perpetual securities.

Serbia has returned to the euro market after only four months, tapping the line it opened in June this year and raising cash to refinance dollar obligations it faces in 2020.

A move in the Bund curve left the market too volatile for Nederlandse Waterschapsbank (NWB) to fully place its seven year euro benchmark on Thursday.

Technology firm Apple issued its first euro green bond on Thursday, selling a €2bn deal that bankers thought had been priced flat to its curve. The issue continued a strong recent run of Reverse Yankee deals.

BBVA and DNB Bank were both looking to build towards their minimum requirements for own funds and eligible liabilities (MREL) in the euro market on Thursday, eschewing non-preferred senior issuance in favour of the cheaper preferred senior format.

The State Export-Import Bank of Ukraine is on screens for its first ever tier two bond, angling for a steep price.

Chinese infant milk formula maker Feihe has raised HK$6.7bn ($856m) from its Hong Kong IPO. Investors put in enough orders to cover the deal by multiple times at the bottom of guidance.

Chinese hotel company Huazhu Group has launched a roughly $1bn loan into general syndication, raising the money in part to help fund an acquisition of a German rival. But bankers are debating whether the borrower should be treated as a real estate company. Pan Yue reports.

Another Germany-focused real estate firm is dipping into the high yield bond market. Peach Property is launching €250m of unsecured senior notes, following a successful bond issue by Demire. While Germany is on the brink of recession, its property market keeps breaking new records.

Oil major Royal Dutch Shell hit the euro bond market on Tuesday with a three-tranche trade that had an eight year tranche as its shortest maturity, Syndicate bankers say European Central Bank bond buying is creating more demand further out along the maturity curve.