◆ Proceeds used to fund buyout of Coca-Cola Beverages Africa ◆ Colonial adds €500m green deal ◆ SIG and Henkel brave an ‘unusual’ Friday window

The winning deals, banks, issuers and market participants were revealed at a gala dinner at The Nobu in London.

Explicitly guaranteed Dutch utility company expected to trade tighter against govvie and agency peers

◆ Issuer outmaneuvers worsening market to meet funding targets ◆ Trade leaves premium to compensate for heightened volatility ◆ Spread is BoI's tightest senior funding since 2021

◆ World Bank's first benchmark public deal this year ◆ Sterling floater 'the right product' for issuer and investors ◆ Other borrowers eye windows in new quarter

◆ Corporate issuer repositioned as SSA ◆ Spread to Dutch govvie a primary focus ◆ 'Extremely high quality book' supports tighter pricing

Investors in Latin America are growing increasingly concerned that social unrest in Colombia, where tax reform plans are in tatters and more than 40 people have been killed, is a sign of things to come, with sovereigns facing severe pressure as they attempt to improve credit profiles that have been battered by the coronavirus pandemic. Yet sovereign bond markets are seeing only modest, short-lived sell-offs, given the enormous liquidity still in bond markets.

In this round-up, the China Securities Regulatory Commission plans to ask companies to include separate chapters for corporate governance as well as environmental and social responsibilities in their annual financial reports, and three Chinese telecommunications companies will be dropped from the New York Stock Exchange after an unsuccessful appeal.

UBS has revamped its management of sustainability and appointed Michael Baldinger as chief sustainability officer. Last month it named Suni Harford, president of UBS Asset Management, as group executive board sponsor for sustainability and impact.

Liontrust Asset Management is launching a new listed ESG fund on the London Stock Exchange.

Banks backing the successful Allied Universal bid for UK security company G4S are set to split around $100m in financing fees for backing the deal, with Credit Suisse and Morgan Stanley in line for the lion’s share of the profits, as the $6.3bn eight tranche syndication is priced and the firm is delisted.

A small band of committed investors in Tesco has achieved spectacular success with a shareholder motion on healthy food. This should embolden investors to hold issuers to account on a wider range of social matters — and also contains a deeper lesson about how markets bring about change.

Higher prices and concessions mean many issuers will wait for better days

Trade the first corporate deal in CEEMEA since the war in the Middle East began

Fondo Mivivienda restarts issuance, but is not the best read across for most LatAm issuers

Angola earns praise for its $2.5bn reopener on Tuesday

A very rare sovereign issuer from CEE is preparing a new bond ahead of a maturity

Dutch agency prints new five year in volatile week for rates and commodities

Primary market for public sector unlikely to see large transactions until after Easter, reckon bankers

War uncertainty and volatile rates have halted European unsecured bank issuance in euros

Deal volume drops to 215 from 296 last year, JP Morgan says

The US dollar market buoyant this week despite escalating hostilities in the Middle East

Redwood will be a repeat issuer

Monday evening sale is latest block trade