Americas

South American development bank Corporación Andina de Fomento (CAF) returned to the dollar market this week with a $1bn five year fixed-rate note.

CME Group intends to launch cash-settled Bitcoin futures in the fourth quarter of 2017, the exchange operator announced on Tuesday.

Lloyds opened books on Tuesday on its first callable senior bond transactions for the minimum requirement for own funds and eligible liabilities (MREL) on Tuesday, following Santander UK into the dollar market as banks start to think about pre-funding for 2018.

The Commodity Futures Trading Commission on Monday announced that Democrat commissioner Rostin Behnam will sponsor the Market Risk Advisory Committee (MRAC), a body that advises the CFTC on market structures and systemic risk.

Chinese online peer-to-peer lending platform PPDAI Group has launched bookbuilding for an IPO of American Depository Shares.

Chinese listings in the US are continuing at a breakneck pace, with three more companies hitting the road this week. But a recent plummet in the price of freshly-listed micro-lender Qudian shows investors will need to hold their nerves.

Multibank, the Panamanian bank, will begin investor meetings on Tuesday ahead of a proposed senior unsecured bond issuance in the US dollar market.

Grupo Bimbo, the Mexico-headquartered baked goods group, will begin meeting fixed income investors on Wednesday ahead of what would be its first cross-border issuance in over three years.

Corporación Andina de Fomento (CAF) is this week set to bring its second dollar benchmark of the year, the proceeds from which will be used to pay off a $1bn floating rate note maturing next year.

October will count as a relatively quiet month for most investment grade corporate bond markets, except sterling, which has already absorbed enough new paper to increase on its average monthly volume, according to Dealogic data.

Sogou, the internet search arm of US-listed Sohu.com, has kicked off bookbuilding for a $585m IPO on the New York Stock Exchange.

Market analysts are confident that Venezuela's PDVSA can make imminent debt payments, but there is little consensus beyond that after the oil company waited until the last possible moment to release funds for a principal payment on Friday.