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‘Extremely busy’ August restart in store for SSA market

Pause will benefit issuers as excess bonds need absorption before issuance starts to ‘fire on all cylinders’ from August 17
Green investors buy when everyone else stops, giving issuers one last pricing lever — perhaps to cross a line none of them wants to reach

EM bond surge in September at risk if new burst of war reignites inflation

Market is in good shape, but will not stay that way if war drags on over summer

Brookfield asks to defer interest on German multifamily CMBS

Restructuring of €316m deal from 2021 is likely
Green investors buy when everyone else stops, giving issuers one last pricing lever — perhaps to cross a line none of them wants to reach
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  • Europe’s high grade primary bond market was pumping out deals with double figure new issue concessions this week, though German real estate company Vonovia’s debut green deal showed that ESG demand is still strong enough that borrowers don’t have to offer extra.
  • French car parts maker Faurecia has issued its first green bond, which will help fund its growing investments in hydrogen fuel cell technology.
  • OP Mortgage Bank’s green debut €750m 10 year covered bond was priced on Thursday in line with where a Pfandbrief might have been expected to come. At the same time, National Bank of Canada made a rare appearance with a €500m seven year that was priced well inside fair value.
  • Despite the disruption that the coronavirus pandemic and, more recently, volatility in global markets have brought to emerging market debt, issuers in the CEEMEA region are not backing away from their pivot towards ESG financing. Though concerns about greenwashing are holding the market back, new sustainability-linked and transition structures are tempting issuers.
  • German state-owned development bank Kreditanstalt fuer Wiederaufbau (KfW) made a rare public green outing in the offshore renminbi market this week, raising Rmb1.25bn ($192m) from a deal that saw strong participation from green and ESG investors.
  • STS templates needed for issuers to certify their deals have been a helpful preparation for RMBS issuers looking to certify an ‘environmental, social and corporate governance’ (ESG) transaction, an unintended benefit of regulation originally considered burdensome by many in the market.