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Life is not getting easier for the treasury teams of financial institutions and the investors that buy their debt. Much of 2015 has been dominated by volatility, with the euro market shut for long periods of time.

Insurance professionals are used to uncertainty. It’s their business. But even they are worried about the uncertainties they face under new regulations about to go into effect, over which there is still a significant lack of clarity.

Industrial and Commercial Bank of China New York opened bookbuilding for a dual-tranche senior dollar bond on Thursday, while Future Land Development Holdings has started wooing high yield investors with a new two year offering.

China’s cross-border interbank payment system (CIPS), launched on October 8, is revolutionising the way payments are made and received in RMB across the globe. The system is just in its first phase, but as it expands its reach, the role of offshore RMB clearing banks will be called into question.

Perform Group, the UK digital sports media company, announced its intention on Wednesday to hit the high yield market with its first bond: £200m of secured notes to fund new content.

Royal London Mutual Insurance Society looked to the sterling market for a 13 year subordinated bond following meetings with investors earlier this week.

Kuwait petrochemicals firm Equate is due to close a $6bn one year loan by early December that will include an Islamic financing component.

Multilateral development bank Gulf Investment Corp (GIC) has yet to open books on a dollar bond after finishing a roadshow on Monday. But the delay was not a sign of wider Middle East uncertainty, said the leads on the trade.

Latin American development Corporación Andina de Fomento (CAF) clinched its tightest ever spread and coupon in the euro market on Tuesday with a five year deal that was larger than the borrower had initially intended.

A rare public sector issuer from the eurozone periphery could bring some euro supply late in the year after hiring banks on Tuesday to run an investor roadshow.

Cabot Credit Management, the UK debt purchasing firm, on Wednesday raised €310m of secured notes to support its buyout of peer company Hillesden Securities from Faccenda Investments.

Snam, the Italian natural gas transmission company, priced a €750m eight year bond on Tuesday, its first issue since it was added to the list of bonds that the European Central Bank will buy as part of its public sector bond purchase programme, or quantitative easing.