Head of funding for 16 years steps up at Nordic supra

◆ Dutch issuer brings new euro benchmark at last, with social label ◆ Most recent euro line opened over 10 months ago ◆ Peers' bonds helpful to pricing given BNG's absence

There's been a lack of ESG labelled FIG issuance in March, despite this year's volume being higher than last year

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BNG deal 'most exciting' while Eurofima will test long-dated demand

◆ Defensive structure for nervous market ◆ Largest book on a busy day for FIG issuance ◆ ABN keeps position of leading bank EuGB issuer

State of New Hampshire's innovative bond gets Ba2 rating

Shares in company, which manufactures underwater mine disposal drones, have risen by close to 50% this year

Renewables can make Europe’s capital markets less vulnerable to energy price shocks

High demand from institutional and retail investors for maker of Patriot missile components

Book to open on Monday, close on Thursday in latest express IPO

Submarine mast maker's IPO raised €132.8m

Central banks in the region have stepped in with support and lenders are thought unlikely to let sub debt extend

African issuers are dominating CEEMEA issuance

A prolonged oil shock will hurt airlines, but a Covid-style industry collapse is a long way off

The company's curve has massively outperformed the South African sovereign this month

Like Angola's, yields on Sasol bonds have fallen since the Middle East war began

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

I don’t need to work, but I’m tempted to go back

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

As private creditors continue to resist calls to participate in coordinated debt relief efforts, a group of Ecuador’s bondholders appeared to be insisting that another path was possible as they said the South American sovereign had set a positive precedent for other EM sovereign debt restructurings likely to follow in the Covid-19 era.

At the end of June GlobalCapital and DZ Bank brought together some of Germany’s leading public sector bond issuers to discuss the impact of the coronavirus pandemic on their capital markets activities. Four months after the crisis began to be felt in Germany, representatives of the country’s development banks and Länder have come through the initial panic and reaction stage and are now beginning to understand more fully the extent of the damage the disease has caused to the economy and just how much their day-to-day lives have changed.

Zam Khan is a managing director in Houlihan Lokey’s Financial Institutions Group, where he leads the portfolio and capital advisory practice. He told GlobalCapital how banks should use financial data to deal with new NPL formations, or risk being engulfed by losses over the next few months.