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German Startups Group Berlin, a company that invests in digital technology start-ups, was finally listed on the Frankfurt Stock Exchange on Wednesday, having previously tried, and failed, to float there.

WPP, the UK advertising firm, attracted more than €3bn of orders for its four year benchmark bond on Tuesday as investors showed they were willing to turn on the taps for the right deal.

FCA Bank, the financing joint venture of Fiat Chrysler and Crédit Agricole, issued a €500m no-grow bond on Monday.

Russian miners Polymetal and Russian Copper Company (RCC) have dug up two commodity-backed loans which are likely the tail-end of a meagre performance from the Russian loan market this year.

Autoroutes Paris-Rhin-Rhone, the French motorways group, stayed with the defensive tactics of its previous bond issuance on Tuesday, raising a €500m 4.3 year floating rate note.

Sky, the UK satellite and cable broadcasting group, brought a 10 year euro benchmark bond on Monday, pushing out for a longer maturity after a week when many issuers stayed with intermediate tenors.

Simon Property Group, the US property company that is the world’s largest real estate investment trust, launched a benchmark seven year euro bond on Monday , its first issue in the currency for over two years.

Senior SSA bond market figures are already banking on the European Central Bank extending its purchase programme to include German regions, the response to a State of Hessen benchmark seemed to show on Thursday. Virginia Furness reports.

Evonik Industries, the German chemical company, has been a regular feature of the equity block trade market this year as CVC has sold down its stake, and what may turn out to be the last trade came on Monday night, when CVC sold 1.9% of the company.

Amundi, Europe’s largest asset manager, made a smart stockmarket debut on Thursday, rising 3.6% in a falling market, after completing its €1.5bn IPO the previous day.

Banks leapt on demand for Hong Kong dollar medium term notes this week, as better than expected US non-farm payrolls drove rates up in the dollar-pegged currency.

Dong Energy and Vattenfall have forgone their right to exercise the rating event call option on their hybrid notes, just two weeks after Standard & Poor’s removed the deals' equity credit.