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The Cover and GlobalCapital held the annual Covered Bond Awards Dinner on Thursday night at Casa Llotja de Mar in Barcelona, celebrating the best performers in the market.

On Monday, Japanese brewer Asahi Group brought the fourth European bond issue by a beer producer in Europe in 2017, having roadshowed its debut euro bond the previous week.

Since the market returned from its summer break, no corporate bond issuer had printed a new deal with a tenor longer than 12 years before Wednesday. However, on Wednesday French water and waste company Suez Environnement pushed through to 15 years with a €500m trade.

UK-based global mining company Anglo American launched a €1.2bn tender offer and a €600m new issue on Wednesday after recently being returned to investment grade status following 18 months with a junk bond rating.

Ahold Delhaize, the Dutch supermarket company, was the only IG corporate issuer to price a deal on Tuesday. But unlike the five triple-B rated issuers on Monday, the food retailer paid a single digit new issue premium.

Anglo-Dutch consumer goods company Unilever printed the fifth sterling corporate bond deal in as many days on Monday. The £500m dual tranche deal offered investors seven and 12 year tenors. Before this deal it had only 2018 and 2022 maturities outstanding in sterling.

On Thursday RCI Banque, the financing arm of Renault, brought the corporate bond deal count to 10 for the week, but was the only benchmark issuer in the market on the day. Danish logistics company DSV debuted in euros with a sub-benchmark deal.

Bank of China Hong Kong has sold its second Panda bond, raising a staggering Rmb9bn ($1.37bn) from a one year note. The transaction was the largest Panda sold in the interbank bond market, and caught the attention of foreign investors, which made 50% of all bids.

Since the market returned from its summer break, no corporate bond issuer had printed a new deal with a tenor longer than 12 years. However, that changed on Wednesday when French water and waste company, Suez Environnement pushed through to 15 years with a €500m trade.

The UK-based global mining company Anglo American recently returned to investment grade after over 18 months with a junk bond rating. On Wednesday it announced it would tender for four of its shorter dated bonds and priced a new eight year benchmark deal.

Beijing Hyundai Motor Group has completed its second securitization in China this year, selling a Rmb3.5bn ($535.3m) two tranche deal on September 12. While the transaction’s timing coincided with rising political tensions between China and South Korea, investors remained undeterred.

Foreign asset managers will increasingly use RMB raised in China to invest overseas, as the private fund management (PFM) programme takes off, said Alexious Lee, head of capital access, China, at CLSA.