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Private equity firm Permira is merging German debt collector Garfunkelux, which it acquired in July, with British peer Lowell Group — a deal that could play the ‘market opener’ role bankers and investors have awaited since September.

Landsbankinn was set to walk away with €300m of three year money on Monday, but bankers said investor confidence even after a stronger week of trading remains low.

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Mitsubishi UFJ Lease & Finance Company is preparing to issue a second dollar bond this year, with investor meetings scheduled for next week.

Rolls-Royce this week injected some life into the primary US dollar bond market’s stuttering new issue engine with its first deal in 22 years.

German businesses Schaeffler and Covestro successfully completed their initial public offerings this week after having scaled back on their targeted deal sizes.

Banks are grasping at private opportunities throughout their capital curves in search of a safe and affordable source of funding, as a volatile public market proves too rich for bank treasurers' blood and funding costs. Jonathan Breen reports.

Electricité de France this week delivered a lesson in execution and timing as it hoovered up pent up demand for paper as corporate America skulked in earnings blackout amid perkier market conditions.

The European Investment Bank brought a benchmark that public sector bankers hope can bring some stabilisation to the dollar market, as another supranational eyed up a potential new source of demand.

Royal Bank of Canada issued the first dollar denominated Canadian deal in three months at the widest spread this year, while Münchener Hypothekenbank supplied the only euro deal of the week.

Italy blew the doors off the market with the first eurozone periphery sovereign benchmark in a month. And with extra explosives from the European Central Bank, it may have blown a hole big enough for its peers to pile through, writes Craig McGlashan.

It was just like the good old days in emerging market bonds this week despite the IMF's best attempts to spread doom and gloom. Riding the crest of a wave of supply though were the first Russian corporate deals longer than a year since 2013 — and how investors dived in. Francesca Young reports.