The Netherlands

Investors wasted little time placing orders for NIBC Bank’s €500m 10 year conditional pass-through covered bond that was issued on Wednesday, reflecting that it offered the highest spread of any covered bond issued this year by any bank in core Europe. This is also likely to be a very rarely issued structure.

DZ Hyp raised €1bn of eight year covered bond funding flat to its curve on Tuesday in what bankers called a ‘textbook execution’.

Allfunds, the UK-based business-to-business funds platform that is listing in Amsterdam, is making a strong impression among investors that are leading the talks on valuation, according to a number of sources. The deal is one of a number of IPOs being circulated to buyers.

AMG Advanced Metallurgical Group (AMG) found strong demand for a €102m capital raise on Thursday night from investors keen to back the growing demand for lithium, stoked higher by increased global production of electric vehicles.

Investors put in a staggering $60bn of orders for an accelerated offering of Tencent Holdings’ stock on Wednesday, a deal that saw Dutch internet company Prosus taking home HK$114.17bn ($14.67bn) from a record-breaking overnight share sale. Jonathan Breen reports.

Dutch internet company Prosus is looking to pocket up to HK$114.17bn ($14.67bn) from an accelerated sale of shares in Tencent Holdings.

Allfunds, the UK-based B2B wealth platform, launched an IPO to list on the Amsterdam stock exchange on Wednesday.

Italy and Portugal are the first two eurozone sovereigns out of the blocks for syndications following the Easter break, with the former looking to extend its curve by a further five years.

Three banks jumped into the euro senior market after the Easter break on Tuesday, benefitting from stable demand and printing with low new issue concessions.

This week's funding scorecard looks at the progress Europe's supranationals and agencies have made in their funding programmes at the end of March.

CTP Logistics, a commercial property developer based in the Czech Republic, began bookbuilding for its IPO on the Amsterdam stock exchange on Wednesday.

CTP Logistics, a commercial real-estate developer based in the Czech Republic, has launched an IPO on the Amsterdam stock exchange.