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Finnish sporting goods company Amer Sports issued its second Schuldschein loan for $55m to meet demand from investors left out of its first deal.

An Asian agency is finding plenty of appetite for a bond in the belly of the Kangaroo curve, as niche currency bankers said there is also a smattering of interest for the format at the long end.

Sonangol is already in the market for its second international loan of the year and the oil firm will come back for a third syndicated deal before year end, according to a banker at one of Sonangol’s relationship banks.

Latin American supranational Corporación Andina de Fomento (CAF) priced a Sfr200m ($203m) eight year bond on Monday with its lowest coupon ever on an international bond deal.

Ghana National Cocoa Board’s (Cocobod) annual loan syndication has closed oversubscribed and with a margin of around 60bp, the same as the deal it signed in 2014.

Swedbank kept euro denominated FIG supply ticking over with a five year floater on Tuesday, but bankers said the deal’s small oversubscription would do little to convince others to pull the trigger this week.

Analysts expect Russian borrowers’ foreign currency debt redemptions to put pressure on the rouble, despite the central bank’s efforts to downplay the effect.

At least three Turkish banks have set up covered bond programmes and could theoretically be ready to issue their first benchmarks this autumn. However, even if the political outlook improves, the cost of funding in dollars using established senior unsecured programmes may be difficult to beat.

Three of the UK’s biggest banks raised $5bn in senior and sub notes across the curve in the dollar market on Monday, while ING Bank still managed to beat them all in terms of size.

A Standard Chartered led borrowing for automobile parts maker Zhongding Hong Kong will see the company fully exercise a greenshoe, taking the loan size to €150m ($165m). Eight banks have committed to the facility during general syndication and two more are processing their approvals.

Bank of Communications (BoCom) Financial Leasing is preparing for its first bond of the year, having mandated five banks to run the deal.

There was widespread surprise among analysts on Tuesday at the People's Bank of China (PBoC) move not only to weaken the onshore RMB (CNY) fixing by nearly 2% overnight, but also introduce a new system to establish the daily central parity rate from August 11.