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JP Morgan has appointed a new head of financial sponsors and family offices in France.

Mexican real estate investment trust Fibra Uno and Colombian state-owned oil company Ecopetrol reopened existing dollar notes on Wednesday to take advantage of euphoric conditions in Lat Am bond markets.

Pay TV and broadband provider Cablevision sold the first true corporate bond from Argentina since the sovereign exited default in April, raising $500m on the same day the Province of Buenos Aires hit the market for the second time this year.

Shares in Erste Bank and Euskaltel closed nearly 4% lower on Wednesday after two block trades were executed in their shares on Tuesday evening.

A pair of public sector borrowers are lining up to sell dollar floating rate notes on Thursday, following a series of floating and fixed rate deals in the currency on Wednesday.

Novolipetsk Steel’s book build was a riot on Wednesday morning as investors clamoured to get hold of paper from the first of the three Russian corporates carrying out liability management exercises this week.

The June crop of IPOs should all be brought home by the end of this week, leaving the market bare for the dangerous mid-June weeks when the UK will be holding its referendum on leaving the EU.

The Republic of Indonesia sold its first 12 year euro note as part of a dual-tranche return to the European bond market on Tuesday. It had to pay up over its dollar curve, but the elevated cost proved no hardship as the sovereign is keen to make its presence felt among European investors.

The Asian ex-Japan high yield bond market received a boost on Wednesday with Samvardhana Motherson Automotive Systems Group and Xuzhou Economic and Technology Development Zone State-Owned Assets Management (Xuzhou ETDZ) opening books for their dollar debuts.

Basic-Fit, the low cost gym group, is expected to issue revised price guidance for its IPO in the next 24 hours.

Price guidance is expected imminently on the IPO of insurance company ASR Nederland, which is closing on Thursday and looks set be the biggest in the current spate of Dutch equity capital markets deals, beating last month’s listing of Philips Lighting.

The 10 year Bund yield hit a record intraday low on Tuesday, as a German region increased a deal size and a French agency lined up an unconventional eight year deal.