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Conagra Brands became the biggest high-grade casualty of market volatility when it pulled a multi-billion M&A financing on Thursday.

One of Europe’s major electricity producers, Portugal’s EDP, sold its first green bond on Tuesday, aligning its fundraising with the company’s green principles. Meanwhile, Dutch airport owner and operator Royal Schiphol Group announced plans for its debut green bond. Both followed French vehicle leasing company ALD’s inaugural green bond.

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With its latest dollar bond, China's Ministry of Finance may have demonstrated the sovereign’s market access and its credit strength even in a hostile trade environment, but a potential repricing of the China state-owned enterprises (SOEs) curve still seems unlikely, writes Addison Gong.

A pair of debut green bond borrowers made blistering entries to the market on Wednesday. Ireland added its name to the growing list of sovereign green issuers with what on-looking bankers said was a “blowout”, while Société du Grand Paris (SGP) printed at the very top of its size expectations on what was also its debut bond issue of any kind.

Shurgard Self Storage, a European operator of self-storage facilities, has revised the price range for its €575m IPO on Euronext Brussels and is covered throughout the new range, despite a difficult market where several deals have been pulled and others have traded down in the aftermarket.

Sibur, the Russian petrochemical company, announced a bond buy-back on Tuesday, targeting the borrower’s October 2023 bond.

New liquidity requirements will cause a boom in senior bond issuance in the same way that the introduction of capital requirements led to a surge in the supply of subordinated debt, according to analysts at JP Morgan. The analysts said that investors have been underestimating how quickly this trend will impact the euro market.

Wednesday will be debut day in the green bond market, with Ireland preparing a 12 year inaugural euro benchmark and Société du Grand Paris (SGP) out with a 10 year that will also be its first bond issue of any kind. Both must contend with a market backdrop rife with Italian politics-driven turbulence, although SGP’s deal has so far had what one lead called “one of the strongest starts I’ve seen for a French issuer”.

The UK Debt Management Office won big demand for a reopeing of its longest outstanding bond on Tuesday, with a final order book that was over five times covered.

One of Europe’s major electricity producers, Portugal’s EDP sold its first green bond on Tuesday, aligning its fundraising with the company’s green principles.

Gulf International Bank has cancelled a five year dollar bond that it began roadshowing at the end of September.