Commerzbank

◆ Order book swells to over seven times subscription ◆ Minimal premium ◆ Achmea mandates for green senior

Spreads to OATs ‘touching the limits’ but investors unfazed for now

Budget uncertainty and concerns on the government’s future cloud French agency market

◆ German bank prints popular tier two under new green funding framework ◆ Label a positive ingredient, says rival banker ◆ Funding completed at no concession

◆ KfW inches away from funding target ◆ Compressed market causing suppressed demand ◆ Undersubscribed book is 'telling you where the SSA market is'

Bund-swap spreads are heading to uncharted territory with little to stop them, which could cause a headache for SSA issuers

◆ No book updates given ◆ German peer suffers the same fate ◆ Screen levels may have led to undersubscription

The path to a capital markets union will inevitably pass through a pan-European banking union

◆ Commerzbank opts to raise long end senior funding for 2025 a week after dollar AT1 ◆ BFCM goes longer compared to recent multi-tranche Samurai ◆ Commerz pays no premium, BFCM offers slight concession

◆ Deal comes earlier than expected ◆ 20 new investors, including a European supranational ◆ Two green bonds done this year

◆ The new pecking order in eurozone government bonds ◆ Can the bond market build Britain? ◆ UniCredit v Commerzbank: after Orcel's gambit, the Orlopp defence

Commerzbank’s new chief executive Bettina Orlopp has limited options to defend the bank — unlike UniCredit in attacking it