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Municipality Finance has made its long awaited entrance into the green bond market with a dollar five year on the same day that a new green exchange launched.

Swedish banks may have to pay more than their European peers to issue Additional Tier One (AT1) and Tier Two bonds, after the country’s government included plans to tax the securities in its 2017 budget.

Nets, the largest digital payments processor in the Nordic region, will close the books for its Dkr10.4bn to Dkr16.8bn ($1.6bn-$2.5bn) IPO two working days early after receiving strong demand.

Tobacco product manufacturer Swedish Match stepped into the euro corporate bond market on Wednesday to cut its financing costs.

Nets, the largest digital payments processor in the Nordic region, has announced the price range for its Copenhagen IPO, which values the business at up to $4.8bn, almost double the price its private equity owners Advent and Bain paid for the company in 2014.

GlobalCapital announces the results of its first full scale, standalone set of Sustainable and Responsible Capital Markets Awards.

EQT Partners has sold a 20% stake in Dometic Group, the Swedish maker of refrigerators and cookers for camper vans, for Skr3.6bn ($424m).

Municipality Finance will sell its debut green bond in dollars, rather than in euros as it previously intended, in order to secure cheaper funding.

Chr. Hansen, the Danish bioscience company, has added two non-Nordic banks to its core syndicated loan in a €700m refinancing.

The gap to repay a €2.7bn bridge facility that supports HeidelbergCement's purchase of Italcementi is set to close once the former cashes in the sale of its West Virginia factory.

Swedish industrial machinery firm Atlas Copco received eight times the demand required for a €500m 10 year bond on Tuesday, signalling the end of the summer break in the corporate bond market.

Atlas, the Swedish industrial machinery maker, on Monday launched a €500m 10 year note, the first bond roadshow by a Nordic corporate borrower in three months.