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The State of North Rhine-Westphalia more than doubled the record size for a green bond from a European sub-sovereign, pricing a deal several basis points inside initial price thoughts on Wednesday.

Council of Europe Development Bank and World Bank on Wednesday added to a strong week from public sector borrowers in the dollar market ahead of a vitally important US Federal Reserve meeting.

Emerging market issuers were busy locking down funding through all avenues this week. The CEEMEA and Latin America bond markets are churning out deals while the main focus in loans is on a jumbo transaction for Saudi Arabia.

Berlin Hyp issued the first negative yielding covered bond this week, giving investors a sign of things to come as financial institutions prepare for another round of monetary policy stimulus from the European Central Bank.

United Overseas Bank started receiving bids for a tier two offering on Wednesday in what is the year's first dollar bank capital deal from Asia ex-Japan.

Woori Bank has hired six banks to work on a dollar-denominated additional tier one (AT1) offering.

The influx of Chinese M&A into Europe has brought the terrifying task of evaluating the credit risk of clandestine Chinese state-owned enterprises — but the loan structures used so far protect lenders from the unknown.

All bonds great and small from the Iberian market were available on Tuesday, as the Spanish sovereign brought a long-awaited 30 year syndication and the Community of the Basque Country made a rare visit to the market.

Issuers lined up to print in euros on Tuesday as a vital European Central Bank meeting loomed later in the week — but bankers were divided as to how much the flurry of deals was down to concerns over the central bank meeting.

There was a double breakthrough in dollars for public sector borrowers on Tuesday, as Bank Nederlandse Gemeenten reopened the 10 year part of the curve for core issuers for the first time in seven months and Sweden priced the tightest three year benchmark since the first week of the year.

Ten of the 11 banks that underwrote Saipem’s €3.5bn rights issue sold the bulk of their remaining overhang in the stock in a block trade on Monday night, making a gain. But Banca Imi decided to take the riskier path of selling its holdings by itself at a later date.

Kuwait Projects Company (Kipco) was on track to print 2016's first corporate bond from CEEMEA on Tuesday as Turkish conglomerate Koc Holdings also said it would issue a seven year bond.