Deutsche Bank has set a €900bn target for sustainable and transition finance until 2030 and published its initial transition finance framework along with plans to finance more nature-based transactions as part of a broader update of the bank's sustainability strategy . 

ANZ Group Holdings's chief executive Nuno Matos apologised in the Australian parliament for the bank's risk management failures and said the lender had significant work to do to address the root causes of the shortcomings. 

Lloyds Banking Group has hired John Langley from Wells Fargo to take over as chief executive of corporate and institutional banking next year to replace John Winter, who is moving to a new role at the UK bank as vice-chair for CIB.

Warren Buffett's investment vehicle has continued to cut its holding in Bank of America ahead of the legendary investor's exit at the head of the firm in January. Buffett has almost halved his holding in the US bank in the last 15 months.

German landlord Vivion Investments has become the latest high-yield-rated issuer to seek a hybrid bond, with the company's only rating under threat of a downgrade.

UK insurer Saturn Holdings made its bond market debut on Wednesday with an unrated sterling Tier 2 note, while French lender BPCE sold its second bond of the year in the currency. 

Hamburg got a strong response for a minimally sized syndication in a market now bare of major supply events until 2026. The deal confirms that the buyside is still there for the few SSAs still open to doing public funding.

The Ministry of Finance of the People's Republic of China made a quick return to the international bond market to sell a €4bn (US$4.6bn) dual-tranche bond on Tuesday, just two weeks after the sovereign raised US$4bn from two tranches of bonds, one of which priced flat to Treasuries. 

Centersquare is making another run to the asset-backed primary, putting it on track to be the biggest data center ABS issuer of 2025. 

Southern California Edison is the securitization market with a US$1.64bn offering to recover costs incurred from deadly disasters in 2017 and 2018.

Bank of America is projecting asset-backed issuers will print a record US$387bn of supply in 2026, driven by brisk borrowing by consumers and for digital infrastructure.

The European ABS market is showing signs of fatigue as investors take longer to digest the latest dealflow heading into year-end, though overall appetite for paper remains decent.

Deutsche Bank has set a €900bn target for sustainable and transition finance until 2030 and published its initial transition finance framework along with plans to finance more nature-based transactions as part of a broader update of the bank's sustainability strategy . 

Latin American countries Honduras and Suriname are working to issue sovereign carbon credits that will support efforts to conserve their rainforests. 

Three multilateral development banks have launched a Caribbean multi-guarantor debt-for-resilience joint initiative to help the region prepare for disasters and ease debt pressures. 

A new US$1bn credit enhancement facility is set to boost the sovereign debt-for-nature swap market, where dealflow has fallen away after a record-breaking 2024 . Established by Enosis Capital – an “impact credit firm” led by Ramzi Issa , who pioneered modern DFN transactions while at Credit Suisse – the facility has begun life with a US$100m commitment from ZomaLab, the family office of Walmart supermarket heir Ben Walton.

Holding company B Communications sold its entire 15.9% stake in Bezeq The Israeli Telecommunication Corp in a NIS2.73bn (US$832m) accelerated bookbuild on Tuesday.

Plug Power, a once prolific issuer, sold a US$375m convertible bond overnight Tuesday that the cash-strapped fuel cell maker used to take out high-cost debt, but netted US$347.2m on the offering.

The UAE is expected to play host to Airtel Money’s planned IPO with the company on course for a valuation of around US$4bn-equivalent and a deal size of around US$1bn, according to sources.

French medical diagnostic company Sebia has launched a €1.9bn-equivalent dual-currency term loan B to back its buyout by a consortium led by Warburg Pincus, with pricing that aims to distinguish the firm from weak sentiment in the French laboratory sector.

Indian clean energy developer ReNew Energy Global is likely to raise more than US$4bn-equivalent through a mix of loans and bonds over the next two years to fund its pipeline of renewable energy projects as well as refinance debt falling due until mid-2028.

Portability provisions are muscling their way into a growing share of direct lending deals as private equity firms hunt for cleaner, quicker exits following a stretch of high rates and frozen valuations.

Restructuring lawyers and investors have put Merlin Entertainments on their watchlist, as the theme park operator struggles with a cash crunch and lower than expected Ebitda levels, sources said.