Natixis

National Bank of Greece (NBG) has become the lowest rated bank to issue green debt, after winning two times as much demand as it needed for a €500m senior bond on Thursday. The trade formed part of a flurry of green issuance in the FIG market, alongside new deals from Banque Fédérative du Crédit Mutuel and Mizuho Financial Group.

Eureden, a French food co-operative, has signed about €550m of sustainability linked loans, with part of the money earmarked for acquisitions.

Gabriel Levy, who starts as Natixis's global head of debt capital markets on Thursday, says that the bank has made its FIG business more balanced, while its SSA franchise needs to speed up growth outside of France.

Aareal Bank sold the first bank bond in euros for a week on Wednesday, offering encouragement to other issuers who have remained stuck in the pipeline.

French agency Caisse d'Amortissement de la Dette Sociale returned to the euro social bond market on Tuesday, equalling its impressive achievement earlier this month to print another €5bn deal.

Gabriel Levy will start as Natixis's global head of debt capital markets this week, replacing Michael Haize, who is moving over to the global markets division to become global head of rates and currencies trading.

Caisse d’Amortissement de la Dette Sociale is set to return to the social bond market in euros after setting the size record for the format in the currency earlier this month — a feat it also recently achieved in the dollar market.

Mizuho Financial Group will be looking to time the sale of a new senior deal very carefully this week, with euro market conditions still proving challenging for issuers.

The Kingdom of Morocco raised a €1bn bond on Thursday, which was priced wider than some analysts' fair value estimates. Market conditions, bankers said, are deteriorating ahead of expected volatility in coming months.

After a week without deals, the primary euro public sector bond market will see a return of activity next week with Bank Nederlandse Gemeenten and the State of North Rhine-Westphalia preparing to bring sustainable deals in the currency.

The Kingdom of Morocco, an infrequent emerging market issuer that some investors have been watching for, launched a euro bond on Thursday, its second in two years.

Ukrainian steel and mining company Metinvest was one of several emerging markets issuers to tap bond markets this week. The deal was several times oversubscribed, confirming that investors are still on the hunt for yield and are willing to look to single B rated emerging market credits for that.