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CaixaBank and BayernLB were able to sail through fair value with green non-preferred senior deals this week, bucking a trend for rising new issue premiums in 2021. Bankers say a lack of supply is finally helping borrowers to exert more power over their pricing.

A Dutch shell company is vying to become the first European special purpose acquisition company (Spac) to list this year.

CaixaBank found €3.7bn of demand for a green senior bond on Tuesday, as investors revealed their hunger for new paper. BayernLB could follow with a green deal of its own against the improving backdrop in euros.

Just Eat Takeaway.com, the Anglo-Dutch online food ordering marketplace, has raised €1.1bn via the sale of new convertible bonds, following rapid growth during the pandemic as more customers ordered food brought to their homes.

Deutsche Pfandbriefbank launched its first green bond this week, attracting twice as much demand as it needed for its €500m senior print.

The IPO of InPost, the Polish provider of postal lockers, is due to be priced at €16, the top of the initial range, valuing the company at €8bn when it begins trading on the Amsterdam Stock Exchange later this week.

DZ Hyp is preparing to print its first covered bond of the year. The deal could be launched as soon as Monday, which would allow the German lender to get its business done ahead of an expected EU deal for the Support to Mitigate Unemployment Risks in an Emergency (SURE) programme.

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LBBW and Banque Fédérative du Crédit Mutuel (BFCM) were met with muted demand on Monday morning as the pair ventured into a busier, yet weaker market in search of senior non-preferred debt.

Debt was the answer to every problem in 2020, as companies tried to survive the coronavirus pandemic. Dusty revolving credit facilities that had never been touched were fully drawn, firms begged from governments, those that could flocked to the bond market. Now, with hope of the crisis easing, there is an awful lot of debt to clear up. Mike Turner reports.

The negative new issue premiums, falling spreads and high demand for fresh debt seen in the European high grade corporate bond market this month should mean strong borrowing conditions for the new year. But a reduction in capex spending could mean that dealflow might end up disappointing in the early months of the year.

Ahold Delhaize, the Dutch grocer, has refinanced a €1bn revolving credit facility and added sustainability-linked metrics to the deal, as the company’s capital structure continues its shift towards ecological and socially conscious financing.