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Société Générale launched a €500m no-grow five year green bond on Wednesday, following ING Bank’s lead yesterday and landing near flat to its regular senior curve.

The order book for Russian Alfa Bank’s first senior unsecured bond in three years has reached $2.75bn, and guidance for the three year note has been crunched to 5.125% area.

Bahrain took $1.5bn from a dual tranche deal this week. But despite the unusual size of each tranche and the lack of price tightening, rival bankers kept their knives sheathed in recognition of how difficult the Middle East market has become.

Mexican broadcaster Televisa has filed a registration statement and prospectus with the SEC for a planned $1.2bn dollar-denominated bond issue, but Latin America DCM bankers say there is little to compel issuers into the market before year end.

The weakness of the US leveraged finance market was brought sharply home to market participants on Tuesday, when the Carlyle Group, which is buying Veritas Technologies, a US data storage company, abandoned its attempt to raise $3.3bn of debt for the deal.

Aldi, the German discount supermarket chain, has signed a private club loan for around €600m with six banks. The deal is the company's first syndicated loan, according to bankers.

Commercial Bank of Qatar is in the final stages of syndicating its $800m refinancing. More banks from the region will follow with loans with margins of around 100bp, according to bankers.

Public sector borrowers are putting the final touches to their funding programmes for the year amid stable market conditions, but there are few signs that any will pre-fund for 2016 in large size.

Santander UK was set to take home €1bn of five year operating co senior debt after a swift execution on Wednesday, with its slim new issue premium boding well for borrowers looking to grab funding before year end.

CEEMEA issuers are grabbing swathes of funding this this week. Teva signed one of the largest acquisition loans of 2015 on Monday and three issuers look to be printing bonds before the end of this week despite a difficult backdrop in the Middle East and an end of year slowdown.

Malaysia’s Red Sena, the first special purpose acquisition company from the food and beverage sector, has garnered an oversubscription for its institutional tranche, giving it visibility on nearly the entire MR400m ($91m) IPO.

Financial institutions have begun a final push for funding as year-end approaches, with investors still looking to boost returns with higher beta purchases.