Rabobank

Louis Dreyfus, the Dutch agricultural trading company, has amended and extended revolving credit facilities totaling $697.6m, weeks after the company got its first investment grade rating.

The FIG pipeline has slowed to a drip, with the upcoming ECB meeting and Brexit talks bookending what could be the last week of open windows for issuance.

Two banks landed tight with environmental, social and governance (ESG) themed deals this week: Crédit Agricole settled at a record low on its social bond debut, while DZ Bank came even tighter with its first senior non-preferred green bond.

Crédit Agricole landed at an extremely tight level on Wednesday morning as it made its social bond debut with a seven year senior non-preferred deal, following in the footsteps of last week's near zero yield print from Svenska Handelsbanken.

The UK’s SSE Renewables and Norway’s Equinor, two energy companies, have signed what lenders say is the largest ever offshore wind project financing, a £5.5bn package for a wind farm off the UK coast.

Mercuria and Gunvor, the Swiss commodity and energy trading firms, have signed credit facilities for their US businesses, with both companies adding more banks to the deals.

Mercuria, the Swiss commodity trading firm, has signed a $1.7bn credit facility for its US business, with the company reducing the size of the deal being refinanced but continuing the trend of trading firms of adding to their US banking groups.

CNH Industrial, the US-Italian agricultural and construction machinery maker, cruised through the bond market on Tuesday, as bond bankers puzzled over whether the Thanksgiving holiday in the US on Thursday means this will be a short week for issuance.

Gunvor, the Swiss energy trader, has signed a $1.1bn credit facility through its US arm a week after completing a similarly sized deal for its European operations, with five new lenders joining the annual US refinancing.

Rabobank sold the largest 20 year covered bond of the year at the tightest spread it has ever achieved in that tenor on Thursday, illustrating superb market conditions.

TenneT, the Dutch transmission system operator, brought a dual tranche bond on Monday that was bang on trend as far as investors were concerned. The company's shrewd choice of a long dated green bond allowed it to increase the deal while printing it flat to or just through fair value.

Gunvor, the Swiss energy trader, has signed a $1.225bn European revolving credit facility, having increased it after asset-hungry lenders oversubscribed the loan during syndication.