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Covered bond primary activity slowed this week with just two €500m seven year trades emerging from banks in the Netherlands and Italy.

Asia's debt market was crowded on Wednesday with three issuers on the hunt for their respective fundraisings ahead of the Easter holiday.

Oil products storage and distribution firm Puma Energy has invited banks to join a $500m loan that will refinance a one year revolver that matures this May.

HeidelbergCement issued a benchmark high yield bond on Monday that was increased to €1bn and nearly three times oversubscribed.

Gategroup, the airline food services company, has increased the size of a revolving credit facility after an amendment operation, giving the company greater financial headroom.

Thailand’s TMB Bank is set to return to the dollar bond market for the first time in 10 years, having mandated three lenders for a roadshow next week.

Less than a week after the European Central Bank announced monetary stimulus measures directly targeting the continent’s corporate bond market, a dramatic rally has delivered Europe’s largest ever euro-denominated corporate bond.

Crédit Agricole raised €3.25bn as it issued the biggest euro covered bond benchmark since 2007 on Wednesday, achieving a competitive cost of term funding at historically cheap rates.

There was little sign of post-AB InBev indigestion in the corporate market on Thursday as Energias de Portugal issued a €600m seven year bond.

GlobalCapital announces the results of its Equity Capital Markets Awards for 2015, following our inaugural ECM Awards Dinner, in London on March 16.

Anheuser-Busch InBev took Europe’s rocking corporate bond market to another level on Wednesday, as the Belgium headquartered brewer raised the largest ever euro-denominated corporate bond.

Corporate bond markets snapped into bullish mode on Friday as the effect of Mario Draghi’s renewed monetary stimulus kicked spread tightening into full throttle.