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National Bank of Abu Dhabi has mandated six banks for investor meetings starting February 8.

Türk Eximbank issued a $500m five year bond on Monday, commanding a $1.09bn book and bringing hope to syndicate officials that more deals from the country may follow.

SIF, the Dutch maker of components for the offshore wind, oil and gas markets, has set the price range for its all-secondary initial public offering at a level that implies a valuation of €357m-€434m.

Cardiff University broke the two week silence in Europe's investment grade corporate bond market with a £300m deal on Monday that achieved the lowest coupon ever for a public benchmark bond by a UK university.

The European Investment Bank is out with a three year dollar benchmark, which bankers away from the deal feel is aggressively priced — although its leads disagreed with that assessment.

Italy is set to benefit from a Bank of Japan-induced rally in eurozone government bonds late last week after mandating for a 30 year benchmark on Monday — and bankers suggest Spain could follow with a similar deal.

Turk Eximbank (Turkiye Ihracat Kredi Bankasi) has released initial price thoughts for the first Turkish bond of the year at 425bp area over mid-swaps.

Bankers say that five years appears to be the right point in euros in a week in which a raft of issuers hit the books.

A window for sovereign, supranational and agency issuance opened after the Federal Open Market Committee (FOMC) meeting on Wednesday, with deals likely to get done before the inevitable slowdown accompanying the start of the Chinese new year on February 8.

China Railway Rolling Stock Corp hit the equity-linked market this week for $600m, becoming only the second firm to print an H-share CB in Asia since 2007. The deal, which follows a similar issue from a Chinese peer earlier this month, has set in motion the transition from a rare deal type into a regular funding option.

Haitong International Securities has hit the market for a HK$8bn ($1bn) three year bullet, which could increase in size depending on demand.

LGC, the UK life sciences company being bought by KKR, tightened price guidance on its €350m euro term loan ‘B’ again, after bringing forward its deadline.