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Austria has become the first eurozone sovereign to syndicate a 100 year bond, selling €3.5bn to investors desperate to pile cash into ultra-long paper.

US chicken processor Pilgrim’s Pride Corp plans to fund its £1bn buyout of UK peer Moy Park with cash in hand, an extension of its term loans, and a new debt issue to repay a JBS subordinated note.

Turk Eximbank has opened books on a new five year senior note with price talk at a wider level than its seven year bond, leading one buy-side analyst to remark that initial price thoughts in EM are “irrelevant.”

Two hundred delegates gathered in Amsterdam on Tuesday September 5 for Euromoney Conferences’ fifth Sustainable and Responsible Capital Markets Forum. For the second time, it was organised jointly with GlobalCapital.

The European high yield bond market returned from its summer break to €3bn of new bond offerings this week, including notes from Delaware’s Kronos International and California’s Equinix.

Spanish clothing retailer Cortefiel priced its leveraged buyout bond on Thursday, in a sign that the high yield market is open for challenging credits.

The European high yield bond market returned from its summer break to €2.8bn of new bond offerings this week, including a sub-benchmark sized note from Delaware’s Kronos International on Monday.

Praesidiad, a Belgian perimeter security company, launched the term loan for its acquisition by private equity firm Carlyle on Monday, in what was a busy week for the market. More than €2.5bn of loan deals have been launched in the past four days.

A €600m two tranche bond issue to finance the Spanish retailer Cortefiel’s LBO will be the euro high yield market’s starting shot for the second half of the year.

The European leveraged finance market is set to contend with loan deals approaching €4bn for the start of September. Over half of that is for the German pharmaceutical firm Stada — a deal that could help make funding more expensive for everyone else, writes Victor Jimenez.

FMO, the Netherlands development agency, this week became one of the only borrowers to issue synthetic bonds referencing the Myanmar kyat.

Banks are making efforts to boost their sponsor coverage in Asia, responding to the growing prominence of private equity funds in the region and a shift in business ownership to a younger generation that is more open to selling stakes. Shruti Chaturvedi reports.