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The Kingdom of Belgium has more than doubled its outstanding maturity curve with a 100 year medium term note, and it is keen to issue more ultra-long debt.

Whatever the wisdom of tailoring monetary policy to the gyrations of the global equity markets, the Fed’s likely caution could clear the way for a wall of FIG supply once calm returns.

A global asset sell-off rattled markets this week and stopped an early start to post-summer FIG supply in its tracks, but after a recovery in bond prices bankers say the FIG floodgates are about to open.

The International Capital Market Association has told the European Central Bank that complexity around bank capital could make the product “uninvestable”, but GlobalCapital understands senior unsecured investors are actually driving the complaints.

NL Financial Investments, the organisation that handles the Dutch state’s shareholdings, has selected eight investment banks as bookrunners and co-lead managers for ABN Amro’s highly anticipated flotation.

KfW showed public sector issuers exactly what it takes to get euro investors reaching into their pockets this week — a hefty new issue premium, writes Tessa Wilkie.

Traders this week reversed the recently growing dispersion among some of Europe’s widest iTraxx Crossover credits, with Abengoa rallying sharply as three banks backed the company’s rights issue. But the reprieve was brief and against the tide, say some participants.

Sanne, the corporate administration provider, spent £7m on transaction costs for its initial public offering in March, the firm said in its half year results.

The MTN community has gained another nob, Leak can exclusively reveal. One dealer has earned himself a new title after receiving a small piece of wood on a special occasion.

Equity capital market bankers, many of them having just completed the traditional late summer migration from deck chair to desktop, put on brave faces this week, as they took in the sudden collapse, then partial recovery, of global stocks.

Nationwide Building Society has splashed out in the Hong Kong dollar market, selling its largest ever note in the currency. The deal comes amid a “revival” for the currency and as European financial issuers are “in vogue” in Hong Kong, but dealers are divided over whether more issuance is likely.

Kuwait International Bank (KIB) signed a $320m three year Sharia-compliant loan on Monday, amid a run of deals from Middle Eastern banks.