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World Bank reopened the tricky 10 year part of the dollar curve this week, paving the way for further issuance at the long end by public sector borrowers.

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Time Warner issued a well received eight year euro bond on Tuesday, as it finally pulled the trigger on a trade that was first mandated at the end of April.

In what was hailed as a momentous, perhaps record breaking, week in high yield finance, Japanese telecoms operator SoftBank took the crown by raising the year’s biggest Asian offshore high yield deal, writes Victor Jimenez.

Synlab, the German laboratory services provider, is being acquired by private equity firm Cinven. The deal will be partly funded with €1.08bn of high yield debt which was priced on Thursday.

Gazprom is asking for consent to modify the terms and conditions of its £500m 5.338% loan participation notes due 2020.

Zambia has released price guidance of 9.25%-9.75% for an 11 year amortising bond, at a yield level that was the highest for a sub-Saharan African sovereign benchmark.

Bank of Communications managed to pull off a super-aggressive trade this week, pricing its $2.45bn additional tier one (AT1) offering in line with its larger peers Bank of China (BoC) and Industrial and Commercial Bank of China (ICBC). The key to that impressive feat was taking advantage of an investor base that had been starved of bank capital paper as well as higher yielding products, writes Rev Hui.

The Republic of Indonesia returned to the euro market on July 23 as it looks to extend its curve with a new 10 year offering.

Xinjiang Goldwind Science & Technology ventured into uncharted territory on July 16 issuing the maiden green bond by a Chinese issuer. While the deal is expected to be the first of many, investors were largely indifferent to the trade’s green credentials.

Three Chinese issuers came out on July 23 with new bonds. China Oilfield Services (COSL) and China Minmetals launched bookbuilding for dollar offerings, while Capital Juda started taking bids for a offshore renminbi (CNH) bond.