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BNP Paribas and UBS opened the offshore Australian dollar FIG market for 2021 this week, with a pair of new senior deals.

SpareBank 1 SMN’s second green bond, priced on Thursday, is set to spark a flurry of similar green deals as issuers try and take advantage of the demand on offer for labelled debt — even at near-term tights.

Sustainability-linked bonds conquered a new investor base this week, as the instrument spreads rapidly around the world. Surbana Jurong, an architecture and engineering consultancy indirectly owned by the Singapore government, brought the first such instrument to the Singapore dollar market, where it aroused keen interest.

CMB Financial Leasing Co had to navigate hurdles around structure, timing and pricing for its dual-tranche bond outing this week, managing to bag $800m from a $2.7bn order book.

Bank bond spreads widened on the back of negative sentiment this week, but a handful of lenders were still able to take advantage of a constructive backdrop in the new issue market.

ANZ returned to the euro market with a tier twovlinked to the UN’s sustainable development goals (SDG) this week — going on to print a deal that was over three times covered at guidance.

Westpac kicked off 2021’s Australian financials market on Thursday by launching a new tier two bond. Aussie borrowers are expected to focus on capital trades this year in order to meet their total loss-absorbing capacity (TLAC) requirements with tier two debt.

Agricultural Bank of China and Shanghai Pudong Development Bank Co competed for investor orders on Monday. ABC, the bigger of the two and offering a green bond to the market, got more attention, while SPDB faced an uphill battle.

Indonesian garment company Pan Brothers has been downgraded by Fitch Ratings for the third time in the past three months as a result of refinancing pressure.

Issuers from Greater China flooded the market with dollar deals on Tuesday, capitalising on strong appetite from investors ready to put money to work in the new year.

The European Investment Bank made a blazing start on Monday in tackling its 2021 borrowing programme, hitting the Australian dollar and sterling markets on Monday, and lining up a dollar deal for Tuesday.

Asia-based Impact Investment Exchange (IIX) has raised $27.7m from a women's livelihood bond that was linked to the Covid-19 pandemic. Its chief executive and founder explains the deal’s rationale to GlobalCapital Asia.