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Some of the big names in Europe’s agency sector sat down with GlobalCapital in late May to discuss the funding landscape and its future, touching on political risks both in Europe and across the Atlantic, monetary policy, arbitrage opportunities and green bonds.

Sparebank 1 Boligkreditt found solid demand for its €1bn seven year on Monday, even though the transaction vied for investors’ attention with another deal in the same maturity.

Permira Debt Managers, the direct lending arm of Permira, has closed its third fund at €2.1bn, having already invested over 30% of the fund, including £375m for UK private members club Soho House.

Intesa Sanpaolo has joined other national champions in entering the FIG green bond market for the first time, selling €500m of five year notes with a negative new issue premium.

Clydesdale Bank was heavily oversubscribed for an eight year non-call seven £300m floating rate note (FRN) on Monday in its first senior deal from its holding company.

Etisalat Nigeria is in the “advanced stage” of its negotiations with 13 local banks over the restructuring of a $1.2bn loan taken out in 2013, according to the company.

Financial historian Professor Richard Roberts takes us back to 1987 when GlobalCapital (then called EuroWeek) was launched, a time of market crashes, when Japanese banks dominated the league tables, the World Bank was the best borrower in the market and a small German agency called Kreditanstalt für Wiederaufbau issued its first deal.

Since 1987, when EuroWeek started publishing, the global capital markets have been through several revolutions, but there are still plenty of working practices in 2017 that would be recognisable to someone from the fixed income market of 1987. What might the capital markets of 2047 look like? Owen Sanderson makes some predictions .

Government bond markets are the foundation of the capital markets, but have been anything but stable in the last 30 years, as new techniques of sovereign debt management have given way to the establishment of the euro, the sovereign crisis, and the re-emergence of central banks at the heart of the market. By Owen Sanderson.

Supranational issuers have enjoyed a strong start to 2017, with core currency markets in fine fettle. Wide swap spreads have aided dollar issuance — as have efforts to tap the US investor base — while several borrowers have introduced new strands to their SRI and currency mix. The political outlook is also rosier after Emmanuel Macron won the French presidency, although risks remain in the form of an unconventional US administration and looming Brexit negotiations. GlobalCapital met some of the world’s top tier supranational issuers in May to discuss these topics — and more.

Nigeria is offering around a 30bp premium at price talk for its first diaspora bond as deal watchers asked whether it will really be able to attract $300m of retail investment.

A UK ABS transaction backed by non-prime credit card receivables is being pitched to investors this week, as buyers closely eye tightening spreads across ABS assets and an uncertain near term economic outlook.