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Norway’s Sparebank 1 SMN is set to return with its second green bond in the coming days, becoming the third Nordic issuer to tap the public market this year.

Deutsche Bank attracted more than €7.5bn of demand for two tranches of non-preferred senior debt on Monday, as investors showed strong support for the credit following a positive set of results for 2020.

Prologis, the US logistics real estate investment trust, and unrated French telecoms company Iliad showed the range of corporate deals on offer this week, with investors pouncing on both trades.

Iliad, the unrated French telecoms company, attracted ample demand and twice increased the expected size of its bond during bookbuilding on Thursday, as syndicate bankers say the European corporate market is wide open to all types of issuer.

A $390m loan backing CVC Capital Partners’ acquisition of Myanmar’s Irrawaddy Green Towers (IGT) was abruptly put on hold this week after political turmoil rocked the country following a military coup. Pan Yue reports.

Prologis, the US logistics real estate investment trust, proved that highly rated corporates can still entice investors, with the issuer printing long maturity debt inside fair value despite tight spreads.

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.

Met Group, the Swiss energy trading company, has signed €915m of short term loans, reducing its facility for the first time for years, after ABN Amro, one of its main lenders, pulled out of this kind of financing. Met found two other banks to replace ABN but wanted to focus on price with the deal, rather than size.

In a rare sign that environmental campaigners are having an impact on the financial industry, the burden of financing the Ecuadorian Amazon oil trade has shifted between banks in the past six months. But it is clear the banking industry is supporting the trade in more ways than have yet been uncovered.

Real estate companies are some of the biggest borrowers in Europe this year, with loans for Valor Real Estate and QuadReal Property, a UK/Canadian property joint venture, and Supermarket Income Reit adding to the pile this week.

Smurfit Kappa, the Irish paper and cardboard packaging company, has signed its first sustainability-linked loan for €1.35bn, at the same time as setting new targets to reduce its carbon footprint and water use and employ more women.