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Trafigura, one of the world’s largest commodity traders, has completed its European bank facility refinancing to add sustainability-linked targets to its debt, a month after the company made its debut in the Schuldshein market.

India’s Adani Green Energy has raised a $1.35bn green loan to support the construction of projects under its renewable portfolio.

Rabobank has developed a bilateral loan facility with a margin linked to food waste, in an attempt to homogenise parts of the otherwise bespoke sustainability-linked loan market, but not everyone is convinced that there will be much use for a one size fits all approach to KPIs.

Barclays and Standard Chartered gave euro investors rare opportunities to build subordinated exposure to UK banks this week. The issuers were looking to benefit from strong market conditions during a more stable trading period for interest rates.

Rabobank has developed a bilateral loan facility with a margin linked to food waste, in an attempt to homogenise parts of the otherwise bespoke sustainability-linked loan market, making it easier for treasurers to add ESG financing to their capital structures.

Indian agrochemical firm UPL Corp has opened the country’s first sustainability-linked loan into syndication.

Barclays won plaudits for steering a 21 non-call 20 tier two into an extremely tight pricing level this week, following earlier examples from the large French banks. It accompanied its deal with the sale of some long dated senior paper.

NatWest expanded its environmental, social and governance (ESG) offering with its debut social housing bond this week, the first from a UK financial issuer, landing the €1bn deal well through fair value.

NatWest Group sold the first social housing bond from a UK financial issuer on Tuesday, attracting a highly granular peak order book of over €4.5bn. Investors have latched onto environment, social and governance (ESG) linked bank supply over the past few weeks, with two more labelled deals set to follow in the coming days.

Agrochemicals company UPL Corp is set to be the first Indian company to raise a sustainability-linked loan (SLL) amid growing appetite for the product in Asia. The $500m deal will offer banks in the region a rare opportunity to participate in a syndicated deal from the asset class. Pan Yue reports.

EnBW, the German electrical utility, and the financing arm of a Dutch truck company, DAF Paccar Financial, hit screens with highly rated euro trades on Monday. Central bank bond buying higher than forecast, pushed investors to oversubscribe the deals even though the spreads on offer were thin.

BNP Paribas was nearly seven times subscribed for a long call additional tier one (AT1) this week — in its third dollar deal of the year.