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Amazon grabbed headlines by pouncing opportunistically into the market and pricing an $18.5bn bond this week that included a record tight spread over Treasuries on a sustainability-labelled two year note, but the bigger story was inflation fears skewing the curve steeper.

In the film 'Annie Hall', Woody Allen recounts two diners’ experience at a restaurant. “One of them says: ‘Boy, the food at this place is really terrible.’ The other one says: ‘Yeah, I know; and such small portions.’”

China’s ABS market had a burst of supply this week, with five auto loan finance companies announcing or pricing deals in a bid to get ahead of possible tighter monetary conditions onshore. But the diverse nature of the originators meant competition was of little concern. Addison Gong reports.

Deutsche Bank scored a blowout book with its first euro additional tier one since 2014 this week, as investors rewarded the issuer for progress on its turnaround plan. Banco Santander then gave the asset class another shake, with a deal split across euros and dollars.

The Financial Conduct Authority’s plan to look at helping US-style special purpose acquisition companies list in London smacks of short-termism. Even in the US, the epicentre of the Spac craze, there is a growing clamour for the Securities and Exchange Commission to toughen listing rules.

Indonesian textile company Sri Rejeki Isman (Sritex) saw its bonds plummet in the secondary market this week, as investors grappled with the company's missed debt payments and a series of ratings downgrades. Morgan Davis reports.

“What gets measured gets managed,” goes an old saw popular in sustainable finance circles. If companies, investors and banks, the argument says, collect better environmental and social data, this knowledge will naturally breed improvements in performance.

Let history show that even though no one even kicked a ball in the European Super League, it still had a winner: JP Morgan.

Meituan, a Chinese food delivery company, raised $10bn this week from a combined equity placement and convertible bond issue. Investors flocked to the deal for the investment grade rating and the offer of a highly liquid and volatile stock. Jonathan Breen reports.

FedEx, the US delivery company, picked Europe to print its debut sustainability bond on Tuesday, as the region’s green and environmental, social and governance debt market is “years ahead” of the US.

If the European Union wants its bonds to be considered the true eurozone safe asset, then it’s going to have to start acting like it means to stick around.

Banks are optimistic that sustainability-linked bonds have a bright future as part of their funding toolkits, after Berlin Hyp became the first financial institution to land a deal in the format this week. More trades are already on the way and market participants are stepping up their efforts to break down the remaining barriers for FIG borrowers.