Weekly Covers

◆ CBRE’s debut green tightens over 40bp ◆ Prologis €1bn dual tranche prints with negative concession ◆ Corporate issuers front-load ahead of Fed meeting

Big mining merger reignites confidence in M&A

◆ Choice of three or five year tenor considered ◆ 'Intensive schedule' of investor meetings pays off ◆ Other CAD issuers likely to be 'inspired' by deal

Downgrade 'pretty much priced in' for French bank and covered paper

Heavy local demand for dollar benchmark, but international appetite for AT1 may have improved

Paper could arrive on Monday or Tuesday, ahead of flagship covered market event

Global head of funding Andrea Dore on this week's sterling and dollar transactions

The sovereign has had a busy year of issuance and liability management

◆ Sovereign rides post-EU momentum, beats size target ◆ Deal priced flat to fair value ◆ Thuringia oversubscribed but Länder books shrink

Very little high-quality corporate issuance from South Africa has been available to investors

◆ Protective Life executes its third and largest sterling deal ◆ Global Atlantic captures long end euro bid with a 'club deal' approach… ◆ …after an unusually long 15 year sterling outing

◆ 10 year non-call period is longest since 2014 ◆ Pricing comes very close to shorter Nationwide deal from June