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European corporate bond investors were pleasantly surprised to be offered two new deals last week before the traditional return of the market following the August bank holiday in the UK. Those bonds did nothing, however, to curb their appetite for a full-throated autumn of issuance

The US corporate bond market slowed to a trickle this week with just a handful of smaller deals as desks thinned out ahead of the Labor Day holiday.

The Republic of Angola's bonds rallied some 40bp on Monday after its ministry of finance said that it had sought financial support from the International Monetary Fund, but lost some of those gains as rumours of new dollar issue surfaced.

Bankers in the investment grade corporate bond market are already looking towards the last week of August for the next corporate bond deal after the market failed to deliver a single new issue last week. But that was no surprise for market participants.

Dagong Global Credit Rating, one of China’s largest credit rating agencies, has been banned from rating bonds in the interbank market for one year because it was providing consulting services to companies as it was rating them, the National Association of Financial Market Institutional Investors (Nafmii) announced today.

Emerging market currencies and bond yields were battered this week as old school contagion — the like of which has been absent for many years — infected the market as the Turkish lira crashed. But there is hope that a bounce back for many of these countries could be imminent, as it was after the 2013 taper tantrum. Francesca Young reports.

Within a fortnight, the Republic of Turkey is planning to announce “additional sources of financing” to fill a $2.5bn gap in its 2018 external bond funding plans, Berat Albayrak, the country's finance minister, said on an investor conference call on Thursday afternoon. Albayrak also said Turkey is not in talks with the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and ruled out capital controls.

The US corporate bond market continued at a strong pace this week, ignoring the lure of the beach that sees its European counterparts' new issue flow slow to a standstill in August. More than $22bn of bonds were sold in the first three days of the week and around half of that was raised by United Technologies Corp.

Turkey’s finance minister, Berat Albayrak, is holding an investor call at 2pm London time today. Over 5,000 participants are registered for the call and will be looking to see if the politician can bring calm to the crisis engulfing Turkish and wider emerging markets.

Standard Chartered has appointed a new head of syndicate, as well as a new head of DCM West and DCM East.

EM bond investors are watching Turkish banks closely, as some of the banks have heavy maturities falling due in the next year and capital ratios are being battered by the huge drop in the lira. But DCM bankers are telling these issuers that the lower levels may mean there are opportunities for buy-backs.

The summer break in European corporate bond markets has shortened in recent years to as little as two weeks in August, but investors know that the dollar market is always an option.