National Australia Bank

Funding officials said green bonds had stimulated other sustainability work across their organisations at the Climate Bonds Initiative conference in London on Tuesday.

Bank of Ireland is planning to bring the first covered bond from Ireland in over two years, while Overseas Chinese Banking Corporation is lining up a debut trade in sterling.

National Australia Bank (NAB) and Société Générale both entered the Swiss market on Wednesday with tight pricing, in a sign that the market is luring financial borrowers to print opportunistically in Swiss francs.

HICL Infrastructure Co, the UK infrastructure fund advised by InfraRed Capital Partners, has refinanced its £400m ($556m) revolving credit facility and managed to negotiate cheaper funding from its banking group.

Scotiabank looks set to enter the US private placement market, after it hired an experienced banker from National Australia Bank.

The forthcoming mortgage securitization by National Australia Bank, which includes a green tranche, will be one of the first times any issuer has issued green and normal bonds at the same time that are identical in almost every other way. As such, it will offer a rare insight into pricing.

Yankee banks made their final foray to the dollar bond market this week, before heading into earnings blackout and handing the baton over to US lenders.

National Australia Bank has mandated its own investment bank to lead a potential mortgage securitization that could include a green tranche, making it only the second issuer of green residential mortgage-backed securities.

The financial institutions bond market showed "discipline" this week, said market participants, with investors refusing to pile into every new deal amid a flurry of supply.

Three European banks chose Tuesday to offer senior bonds as issuers took advantage of a period of market stability. Danske Bank and Landsbankinn HF both offered notes in euros, while National Australia Bank (NAB) issued in sterling.

Bank of Montreal (BMO) raised A$800m selling Australian dollar bonds for the first time on Wednesday. The rising flows of Asia Pacific investors is making the Australian dollar market a useful source of diversification for financials and corporates alike.

Bank of Montreal launched an inaugural Australian dollar benchmark on Wednesday. As the fanfare for other Canadian financials has demonstrated, the Asian Pacific buyers are likely to come out in full force.