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A German agency and a European supranational bagged the biggest hits this quarter in BondMarker voting, GlobalCapital can reveal. Read on to see which deals impressed our voters and which failed to tickle their fancy.

The annual Hong Kong Sevens rugby tournament is infamous for being the city's premier weekend of debauchery. Drinks flow and tongues wag, but the matches and related events also offer great opportunities to see and be seen.

The UK's National Health Service, frustrated by a lack of funding and a mounting backlog of maintenance, is seeking a capital injection from wherever it can find it. The government must swallow its balance sheet concerns and provide one, rather than allowing the private sector to step in.

The Bank of England has been dragged back into the mire of Libor-rigging investigations, after the BBC found tapes of Barclays traders referring to "pressure from the UK government and Bank of England" to keep their submissions low. The witch-hunt is already well under way but, if the Bank exerted pressure, it was the right thing to do.

Once France broke international records for sovereign defaults, thanks to wars, money printing and dodgy liability management.

Oil India is returning to dollar bonds, launching a new 10 year offering on Tuesday morning, with the aim of paying off debt related to its 2016 Russian oilfield acquisitions.

If you squint hard enough, the clear gap between the top US firms and the top Europeans might be shrinking. But it’s not going away.

Singapore’s green bond market officially opened last week, with CDL Properties pricing a S$100m ($71.3m) two year, raising hopes that more issuers from the country will follow suit. But Singapore needs to encourage them.

The State Administration of Foreign Exchange (Safe) reports rise in foreign reserves, China Insurance Regulatory Commission (CIRC) chief is under investigation over misconduct, and no formal agreement emerges following Xi Jinping’s meeting with Donald Trump.

Mainland authorities have promised that the China-Hong Kong Bond Connect will launch this year. But several questions remain on how the scheme will handle price discovery and clearing, according to post-trade services provider DTCC, which is working with CFETS on its own onshore-offshore link.

The renminbi fell on Friday at the Asia open as US president Donald Trump holds talks with China counterpart Xi Jinping, State Administration of Foreign Exchange (Safe) claims Mainland’s FX market is stable, and Stock Connect saw a 56% jump in turnover on the northbound channel in March.

Back in the early days of quantitative easing, one of the biggest fears on the Street was the inevitable unwind. But now the US Federal Reserve has broached the topic, perhaps it is better, as former deputy governor of the Bank of England Minouche Shafik seemed to suggest in September, that it is here to stay.