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Nottingham Community Housing Association has signed a revolving credit facility with a margin that is partially linked to increasing racial diversity within its management team — a metric that more borrowers are expected to use in sustainability-linked financings.

Vantage Towers, the telecoms towers unit of Vodafone, has launched its long-awaited flotation on the Frankfurt Stock Exchange, having announced its intention to float on Wednesday.

Indiabulls Housing Finance has brought a rare Indian convertible bond to the market, raising $150m after increasing the size of its debut offering.

América Móvil, the Mexican telecommunications company controlled by Carlos Slim, had to cheapen the terms of its €2.2bn bond exchangeable into shares in Dutch telco KPN, but still achieved a remarkably cheap refinancing of a non-core stake.

The Export-Import Bank of Korea has returned to the offshore renminbi (CNH) bond market after nearly three years, to take advantage of a recent rally in the CNH swap rate and investor demand for high quality Korean deals.

Agricultural Bank of China (ABC) took a three-pronged approach to its deal on Tuesday, raising nearly $1bn across two dollar bonds and one Hong Kong dollar tranche. The bank was able to squeeze the spread on its notes to new lows, riding on the strong secondary market performance of deals from the big Chinese banks.

SK Holdings pocketed W1.12tr ($1bn) from a block trade of SK Biopharmaceuticals, but the deal hit the South Korean drug company’s share price hard, sending it tumbling more than 17%.

Peru is set to test Latin America bond market resilience to both US rates volatility and domestic election uncertainty soon as it meets fixed income investors virtually this week ahead of a proposed euro and dollar new issue.

Toyota Motor Finance (China) Co plans to launch its first auto loan securitization deal of 2021 under the Toyota Glory series next week. The originator will open the onshore auto ABS market after the Lunar New Year break with a Rmb5bn ($774m) transaction — its largest to date.

Petrochemicals producer Alpek, which is owned by major Mexican conglomerate Grupo Alfa, will buy back almost half of its $650m of 4.5% 2022s after wrapping a tender offer on Tuesday.

PGIM has pushed the market to a new tight by resetting a deal with senior notes at 104bp over three month Libor.

In 1954 Ennio Flaiano, an Italian screenwriter best-known for being one of the writers on Federico Fellini's 'La Dolce Vita', wrote 'A Martian in Rome', a satirical short story about an alien who lands his spacecraft in the Eternal City, sending it into a frenzy. Mario Draghi's arrival in Rome as Italy's prime minister just over a week ago saw a man, just as alien-looking to Italian politics as any Martian, take a seat at its very centre. His arrival has been just as sensational so far for the country and its capital markets but how effective will he be in the long-term?