◆ State development bank brings year’s first euro deal ◆ Long-end levels attract yield buyers ◆ ‘Encouraging’ signal for duration demand

◆ Biggest and most popular green OAT ever ◆ Third and final syndication came earlier than in previous years ◆ Leading position in green bonds and EGB market affirmed

◆ Westfield operator increases size on €750m trade ◆ SELP's peak books top almost 10 times oversubscribed ◆ Both deals land close to fair value

◆ Rare Norwegian issuer times well its deal launching ◆ Garners largest Norwegian senior book for more than three years ◆ Ayvens prints second green bond of 2026

Issuer returns to market with 10th euro social bond, reaches 56% funded

French agency remains ahead of the curve in its third biggest year for fundraising, may bring another trade before summer

Fund modelled on Romania’s Fondul has $2.4bn of assets

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

Nigeria plans a total return swap, following peers on the continent in the last 12 months

The DRC has a poor governance record but that doesn't mean things will end in tears for its investors

Demand allowed the bank to cut the yield by 35bp

The country offers huge potential and possible pitfalls for investors

A piece of very rare African senior bank issuance could also come this week

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

Even if ceasefire succeeds, investors will still want a risk premium

Country's sovereign bonds will react well to an opposition victory, but an Orban win will prompt a sell-off

Bank’s relationship with SpringCash is ‘commercial’

Crédit Mutuel Arkéa has joined a fast-growing list of banks marketing Covid-19 response funding in the bond market, raising €750m in non-preferred senior format on Thursday to finance projects through its social bond framework that tackle the effects of the pandemic

GVS, the Italian manufacturer of masks and filters, has confirmed that it is seeking to list on the Milan stock exchange this month.

Barclays was positively surprised at how quickly capital markets reopened and it wasted little time issuing senior and tier two deals while its treasury team were still working from home. The UK lender is likely to use the Bank of England's Term Funding for Small and Medium-sized Enterprises (TFSME) facility, which will lower its secured funding needs. The bank was well capitalised going into the crisis and has buttressed itself against the expected tide of credit impairments with a prudent level of provisioning.