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Kommuninvest and Oesterreichische Kontrollbank are set to bring deals at the short end of the dollar curve on Tuesday — by which time leads are hoping Monday’s turbulent swap spreads will have calmed.

BBVA, BFCM and BPCE met with strong investor demand for euro senior unsecured deals on Monday, as peripheral and longer dated debt proved no deterrent to buyers.

Intesa Sanpaolo is set to print the first additional tier one transaction of 2016 after opening the dollar tier two market for European banks last week, while ABN Amro opened the euro bank capital market on Monday.

In the first RMB round-up of 2016, Hong Kong RMB deposits and cross-border trade settlement recovered in November, RQFII programme added three new entities in December 2015, the Hong Kong and Singapore exchanges both saw strong futures trading volumes in December, ICBC managed nearly Rmb1tr in RMB-won trades, and Zimbabwe will make RMB one of its legal tenders this year. Plus, a recap of GlobalRMB’s top stories this week.

Supranational and agency borrowers have long anticipated a wave of demand from American investors as US government sponsored enterprise issuance dwindles. But this week there were concrete signs that the dollar bond market has shaken off the problems that prevented the big switch. Craig McGlashan reports.

Eleven covered bonds were priced in the first week of 2016 despite the onset of European holidays and US non-farm payroll data.

The Inter-American Development Bank raised $3bn on Thursday amid a buoyant dollar market for public sector borrowers at the start of 2016.

Blockchain, the technology underlying bitcoin, is coming to a back office, and clearing house, and bank, and front office near you. Instead of one authority keeping records, everyone will. That’s the idea, anyway, of a wave of start-ups rushing to build workable applications. How will clarity emerge from this ferment, and just how will it change the business of capital markets? Jon Hay reports.

IPO, rights issue and equity-linked volume were all down in 2015, so the fact that block trades maintained their 2014 level of issuance made them the stand-out business of the year in equity capital markets. Now stocks participants are asking themselves if they can keep up the pace. Olivier Holmey reports.

The US corporate bond market had a fine Tuesday in its first week back from Christmas holidays, printing five deals totalling $8.775bn. However, momentum proved short-lived as volatility brought issuance to a shuddering halt.

Last year’s difficult dollar conditions looked firmly in the past on Tuesday as a pair of issuers tapped different parts of the curve for big deals — and other issuers readied themselves for trades.

A pair of SSA heavyweights are limbering up for the first public sector dollar benchmarks since the US Federal Reserve raised rates late in 2015 — and plenty more could follow ahead of the next Fed conflab.