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Chinese company Yirendai, an online consumer finance marketplace, is eyeing the New York Stock Exchange for a $100m IPO and has a filed a preliminary prospectus for the listing.

Funding Circle, the peer-to-peer service that lends to small and medium-sized enterprises, is expected to close the initial public offering for its new fund on Tuesday next week. By Monday, it was not yet covered.

Evli Pankki, the Finnish investment bank, launched its IPO on Monday November 16, hoping to raise €14.2m by floating on the main list of Nasdaq OMX Helsinki.

The capital raisings of Greece’s four largest banks are likely to close later than many had expected, after a Eurogroup meeting failed to deliver an agreement at the weekend.

Governments must focus on issuing benchmark deals to mitigate a secondary market liquidity squeeze, which is only set to get worse as regulation impacts primary dealers, said bankers at a government bond conference in Brussels.

US corporate bond issuance in Europe - so-called reverse Yankee bonds - has steadily regained strength this autumn and could be followed by issuers from elsewhere in the world selling euro bonds.

Veritas Technologies, the Californian data storage company, has increased its high yield bond issue to make up for a disappointing loan financing. But initial price talk has yet to emerge.

A supranational issuer has mandated for a green bond — a deal that could take issuance in the final three months of the year within touching distance of the busiest ever quarter for the instrument.

An agency is set to round off its funding for the year with a euro benchmark amid solid but quiet market conditions.

Avago Technologies, the electronics components manufacturer, has commitments due today at 12pm London time for a new €500m term loan ‘B’ for its $37bn sponsor-backed acquisition of Broadcom Corp.

Veritas Technologies, the US data storage and management company, has cut the size of its $3.3bn loan package, with replies from investors due today (November 16).

Car maker PSA Peugeot Citroën said it had cut its funding cost by amending and extending a revolving credit facility. The Volkswagen emissions scandal is leaving winners as well as losers in its wake, said a banker involved in the deal.