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Lufthansa soared after succeeding at its third attempt at a debut hybrid this week, drawing a comfortably subscribed order book and showing few ill effects from the long gestation of the deal.

Pricing has been widened on the £300m sterling cov-lite loan backing Clayton, Dubilier & Rice’s acquisition of Motor Fuel Group, the UK petrol station forecourt operator.

Volkswagen Leasing was the sole issuer to tap the euro market on Monday, brushing off any fears about investor engagement in August by gathering an almost four times subscribed book for a €1.5bn print.

Amdipharm Mercury, the UK generic pharmaceuticals company also known as AMCo, has allocated a €603.2m loan that raises new money and reprices existing facilities.

Greece’s largest banks could only muster a collective "no idea" when requested by the Hellenic Capital Markets Commission to inform the public on the likely impact of capital controls.

UK chancellor of the exchequer George Osborne picked Monday evening to sell a much-hyped 5.4% block of shares in Royal Bank of Scotland.

Puerto Rico’s electricity authority has made a proposal to restructure its debt that could mean bondholders recover between 65% and 70% of principal in an exchange offer, following a default on the island's other debt over last weekend.

International Finance Corp could bring a different flavour of social bond to the syndicated dollar bond market as early as September, its head of funding told GlobalCapital this week.

Bluefield European Solar Fund, perhaps the last prospective issuer on Europe’s IPO market in this otherwise barren summer season, postponed its flotation on Friday, July 31, blaming “unfavourable market conditions”.

The Housing Finance Corp (THFC) sold its second ever new issue on Tuesday, with the UK government guaranteed borrower pricing a 28 year sterling bond flat, or almost flat, to its outstanding paper.

CME Group has agreed to enter into a joint venture with China Foreign Exchange Trade System and National Interbank Funding Center (CFETS), in a move that positions it to open up CNY denominated markets to foreign investors.

Holidaying investors and less than ideal market conditions proved no obstacle for three European banks which took orders just shy of $40bn to sell $6.35bn of additional tier one (AT1) debt in four sessions.