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Bank Nederlandse Gemeenten on Tuesday printed “another great example” of what bankers said were the “tangible price benefits” of selling SRI bonds. The trade came in the same week that France tapped its famous green OAT — or GrOAT — via auction.

SSA bankers looking to get their Christmas shopping in early were in a slight state of shock on Tuesday, as World Bank lined up a dollar deal to follow a Canadian province’s return to the currency after a six year hiatus.

Bank Nederlandse Gemeenten on Tuesday printed “another great example” of what bankers say are the “tangible price benefits” of selling SRI bonds.

Bank Nederlandse Gemeenten has opted for dollars with what will be its final sustainability bond of the year.

Royal Bank of Canada not only found good demand in a larger than average size for its five year sterling covered bond on Friday, but also executed the trade at considerable cost advantage compared with dollars and euros.

TerraForm Power, the former SunEdison renewable energy yield company, priced two tranches of high yield bonds on Tuesday after increasing the overall size of the offering from $1bn to $1.2bn.

Swiss food and drinks company Nestlé tapped a fourth currency market in three months on Tuesday when it printed a £500m 3.5 year bond ahead of a sterling redemption.

Dutch polymer and resins group ChemicaInvest increased the size of its loan deal at the tight end of guidance on Wednesday, as it repriced its old debt and paid a dividend to its sponsors CVC and DSM.

Liberty Living, the UK student accommodation provider, built a strong order book for its debut bond on Tuesday. It raised £500m, split equally between seven and 12 year tranches.

The Financial Stability Board (FSB) made seven changes to its list of global systemically important banks (G-SIBs) on Monday, lowering capital requirements for BNP Paribas and Credit Suisse and removing Groupe BPCE from the list entirely.

CVC and Ardian charged up the leveraged loan deal pipeline with new buyouts of European businesses in Ireland, Greece and Spain this week. A strengthening European economy is likely to attract more, said market participants.

In recent months Swiss food group Nestlé has extended its euro corporate bond curve with some of its largest ever deals, after it started a Sfr20bn share buy-back programme in July. However, on Thursday it printed its third Eurodollar deal of 2017.