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The MTN world is full of people with fascinating hobbies, but this week we found out about what we believe is a first — Nomura’s Jérôme Margerin is turning his hand to film-making this weekend.

Export Development Canada returned to floating rate syndications for the first time since 2013 on Thursday. Demand was strong enough for the agency to print a deal double the original target size.

Spain is often held up as an example of how austerity works, and Markit data published on August 5 provides some support to this view.

Volkswagen returned to the Australian dollar market for the first time in more than eight months on Thursday with a new four year transaction that attracted strong demand from both domestic and offshore accounts.

A torpid June and July has meant that the corporate bond market has stayed active for longer than normal this year, and some syndicate managers maintain that issuers would be well advised to take advantage of a lively summer by getting in ahead of the September rush.

Russian bonds are going to be more active in the last quarter of this year, according to a GlobalCapital survey of the biggest banks in this business, but a recovery of CEEMEA volumes to the highs of 2013 is still a long way off.

Asian Development Bank has placed its first private medium term note in renminbi, joining a swell of offshore renminbi MTNs in the past month.

Angolan state oil company Sonangol is back in the market for a syndicated loan, led by Standard Chartered.

Despite a flying start to bookbuilding, the HK$11bn ($1.4bn) IPO of China Railway Signal & Communication Corp (CRSC) in Hong Kong eventually succumbed to the turmoil in China’s stock market, forcing it to price at the bottom of the range on August 1.

Asia's high yield bond market finally saw some overdue activity over the past week, with four deals pricing. But the sector is by no means invincible — eHi Car Services had to pull a deal amid tepid demand. But despite that setback, bankers are confident of printing more deals through the summer, writes Narae Kim.

The recent move by two Asian oil companies to change covenants on existing borrowings has prompted a debate on whether more of their industry peers will follow suit. Some bankers believe the reality of a lower oil price environment justifies the revisions, while others are convinced the changes reflect the needs specific to these companies, rather than their sector, writes Shruti Chaturvedi.

Yuexiu gets two for Shanghai tower acquisition loan — Healthy demand for Dongfeng Peugeot loan — ONGC Videsh sounds lenders for refi