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IDB Invest seizes €500m despite investors ‘cherry picking’ ahead of summer

◆ New green seven year prices 2bp inside guidance ◆ Peer comps helpful as old 2032s trade wide ◆ Recent S&P upgrade to boost bank treasury demand

Hines shines in euro debut with €500m green bond

◆ Real estate name builds on Vonovia’s jumbo trade this week ◆ Deal lands at the tight end of guidance ◆ Single-digit concession spotted

Amprion revolving facility jumps to €6.5bn as appetite mounts for grid infra

Tighter margin loan a 'sign of things to come' for infrastructure lending
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  • European investors have wholeheartedly embraced the EU’s Next Generation EU programme and piled into risky assets in anticipation of a swifter recovery. But rating agencies are less convinced, warning that only the substance and implementation of national recovery plans will determine the trajectory of European growth.
  • Greencoat Renewables, the Irish wind farm fund, has made an acquisition of around €60m acquisition in Finland, a few months after the company sold equity to free up debt for purchases.
  • This week in Keeping Tabs: an opportunity for the UK's finance sector after Brexit, and an argument for why you shouldn't worry about the stock market.
  • London’s investment trusts have been tapping a deep pool of equity capital earmarked for green-linked deals. On Friday, SDCL Energy Efficiency Income Trust (SEEIT), the UK-listed energy efficiency investor, closed a £160m raise, £60m more than its original target and on the same day Greencoat UK Wind, the investment trust focused on UK wind farms, launched a £197.6m follow-on.
  • ESG Core Investments has become the first European special purpose acquisition company to go public in 2021.
  • Renewable energy companies have rushed to the European equity capital markets in 2021 to issue about $2.3bn of paper, according to Dealogic data. The figure is by far the best ever start to a year for green equity issuance, and with investor demand for paper increasing, sources predict there will be much more supply to meet it.