◆ Austrian lender's first bond issue of the year ◆ Achieves investor diversification beyond core buyers in DACH, says lead ◆ Moves pricing more than most of its past senior trades

◆ Bond tightens in grey market after record Treasury level ◆ Goldilocks scenario drew investors ◆ Canadian SSAs back in dollars

◆ Issuer’s first EuGB hybrid 10 times covered at peak ◆ Tight senior/sub spreads attractive for issuers... ◆ ...while solid yields entice investors

◆ 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

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’

The reopening of Italian equity capital markets gathered pace on Monday night with two block trades with sellers across Europe expected to take advantage of the market conditions with further trades

Deutsche Hypo took advantage of the public Pfandbrief market before the coronavirus crisis struck and since then has been busy issuing privately placed senior deals. Spreads have since tightened, which should help issuance bounce back. But ready access to favourable European Central Bank repo funding means supply will be restricted. Some parts of the German commercial real estate market are likely to be facing trouble too, but even so, Pfandbrief investors are well protected.

The US Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (OCC) is urging local officials to ease their Covid-19 lockdown measures, warning that some banks are now suffering delinquency rates in the mid-double digits on their small business loan books.