Rating: Aa1/AA/AAA

Banks have enjoyed a hot funding streak in the sterling market in recent weeks, with pent up demand pushing supply towards its highest year in over a decade. Some market participants, however, are worried the superlative conditions might vanish just as quickly as they appeared.

Europe’s high grade corporate market this week saw one of its busiest days of the year, with a touch over €4.5bn printed from eight tranches on Wednesday, and investors lapped up most of the deals with ease.

Bpifrance has announced a euro benchmark, following in the footsteps of two other French issuers that came to market this week.

The Biden administration has vowed to focus efforts on clean energy and sustainability, and the impetus has trickled down to the securitization market. One of the growing pains of the shift to ESG in the market is greenwashing, which often happens due to a lack of standardization. However, market sources say it’s too early to ask for standardization — the first step may be for ABS-issuing companies to get started on their own frameworks and aggregate data.

Rating: Aa3/A/A+

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