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Beni Stabili printed a “gutsy” investment grade corporate trade at the start of the week. The BBB- rated Italian firm managed to attract investors despite plenty of background noise, though bankers said it may send other prospective issuers mixed messages.

German car rental and leasing company Sixt sold just the second corporate bond issue of the week when it copied the format of its four previous deals, which the company has sold at two year intervals.

Gatwick Funding has received its first rating from Moody’s for its £5bn-equivalent multicurrency MTN programme, prompting investors to expect a new sterling issue from the UK airport group soon.

The Federal Republic of Nigeria has released price guidance for its dual tranche bond that rival syndicate bankers and investors are calling “exceptionally” cheap.

The Arab Republic of Egypt printed its $4bn triple tranche bond on Tuesday from a book that peaked at $12.5bn, despite another EM issuer — Russia's GTLK — having to postpone because of market volatility. A rival syndicate banker called the note cheap, but necessarily so.

GTLK, Russia’s state transport leasing company, on Tuesday postponed its dollar Reg S seven year amortising bond, blaming “broader market volatility” for the move. But investors looking at the note said the postponement was more a sign of the buyside becoming more discerning.

The bond markets have been muted in their response to last week’s equity market volatility. Corporate bond investors did not suffer the heavy losses or wild intraday swings their equity peers had endured, leaving them to focus back on fundamentals.

The European Central Bank’s corporate sector purchase programme maintained its rate of purchasing in the first six weeks of 2018, which helped support spreads through the recent period of volatility in global markets.

JP Morgan has become the first non-Chinese financial institution to get an official renminbi clearing bank licence, joining Bank of China's New York branch as the second such firm in the US, the People’s Bank of China said on February 13.

GTLK, Russia’s state transport leasing company, is adding to the flurry of Russian bonds printed since the start of this year, but leads have been unable to crunch the final yield tighter from initial price thoughts.

Sino-Ocean Property Holdings has extended the streak of Panda bonds issued since the start of 2018. The real estate issuer sealed a Rmb3bn ($476.2m) three year deal – its second Panda in two weeks – at the wide end of the price guidance range last Thursday.

China unveils plans to kick start RMB-denominated oil futures next month, the Philippines gets regulatory greenlight for its Panda bond issuance, and foreign ownership of bonds in the interbank bond market rises again in January.