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Dutch car finance bank LeasePlan was in the bond market on Tuesday for a €750m five year deal that won a €1.8bn order book, just one month after issuing another benchmark trade.

UK healthcare real estate investment trust (REIT) Assura has refinanced its five year revolving credit facility and increased the size from £120m to £200m.

Erste Group Bank has mandated leads for its inaugural additional tier one transaction, which will be its first issuance of capital notes since it failed to pay the coupon on legacy tier one debt at the end of 2014.

The Gulf region is on for a record first five months of the year with Qatar, Noor Bank, Etihad, DP World all mandating for bonds this week, while Petrobras printed an eye catching $6.75bn deal.

Ooredoo, one of the largest telecommunications firms in the Middle East and Africa, is refinancing a $1bn three year revolving credit facility, according to two bankers.

Demand for supranational and agency paper in Turkish lira is proving strong despite political tensions in the area.

Public sector borrowers are taking advantage of some of the best conditions in the dollar market all year to print jumbo sized deals at the tightest spreads to US Treasuries in months.

Marlin Enterprise has opened syndication for a $425m five year loan to finance its acquisition of a gold mine in North Sumatra in Indonesia, said bankers working on the trade.

Banks and insurers have been peppering the market with a variety of trades this week, as borrowers start to make use of benign issuance conditions before an expected shutdown in the run-up to the UK’s ‘Brexit’ referendum.

China Construction Bank Financial Leasing Corp has announced plans to issue its second dollar bond as early as this month, days after some of its industry peers made successful returns to the debt market.

International bond issuance from South Korea looks set to resume with Export-Import Bank of Korea back in the market for its third dollar fundraising of the year.

Nasdaq, the US stock exchange, received an enthusiastic reception from investors as it returned to Europe’s bond markets after a three year absence and widened its investor base.