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Deutsche Bank plans to put up to 40 bankers at director level and above in its EMEA investment banking division at risk of redundancy, including the bank's co-head of FIG DCM, GlobalCapital understands. Several of those put at risk were based in Birmingham, including the bank’s head of Europe-US private placements.

American issuers old and new enjoyed the benefits of the euro investment grade corporate bond market in 2017. In comparison, 2018 has been very quiet so far, but some bankers do not expect that situation to remain for much longer.

Bond market participants said on Wednesday said that Latin American issuers could return in force on Thursday after another day of calm in markets.

The plunge in global stock prices has only caused the European investment grade corporate bond market to close for one day. On Wednesday, two pharmaceutical companies from different ends of the the ratings spectrum brought multi-tranche deals which attracted more than €9.5bn of combined demand.

JinkoSolar Holding Co set out plans to raise $100m on Wednesday, after opening the order book for a follow-on offering of American Depository Shares alongside a private placement of the shares, according to a deal term sheet.

Secondary markets for Latin American bonds have held up well in the context of a storm of hefty sell-offs across global equity markets, but volatility is likely to make new issuance tougher as a raft of high yield borrowers line up deals.

Bankers observing South American development bank CAF’s return to euro markets on Tuesday suggested that the multilateral had done well to push through equity market volatility with its largest ever euro deal.

Panda bond issuance has so far been dominated by overseas-incorporated Chinese names. That bolsters volumes, but it does little to help the market fulfil its role of boosting RMB internationalisation. Policymakers have the chance to fix it — but only if they are bold enough to let markets play a bigger role.

Public sector borrowers are reaping the benefits of investors looking to “weather the storm” of wider market volatility, said bankers, as investors poured cash into short dated dollar issues this week. Bank Nederlandse Gemeenten and Sweden are set to be the next issuers to benefit, after mandating for three year trades on Tuesday.

An exchange traded note that rewards investors when equity volatility drops is being shuttered by Credit Suisse, after implied volatility on the S&P 500 exploded this week.

After a year of predictions that a bear market is coming off the back of monetary policy normalisation, people shouldn’t be surprised that investors are a little jumpy.

Commodity Futures Trading Commission chairman Christopher Giancarlo on Tuesday criticised the oversight regime of cryptocurrency spot transactions, saying that a “rationalised federal framework” could be more effective at ensuring the market’s integrity.