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Royal Bank of Scotland has been mooted as one candidate to print additional tier one debt before the summer, after Santander UK this week proved the market is ready for more supply.

FIG issuers paid double-digit new issue concessions across the board in the dollar market this week as they were rocked by choppy market conditions.

Sivantos, the renamed spinoff of Siemens Audiology Solutions, has launched a repricing of a €785m leveraged loan backing its buyout by EQT, which closed last December.

Telecom Italia said on Wednesday that it would seek to price the initial public offering of Infrastrutture Wireless Italiane, its telecom towers unit, in Milan at €3.25 to €3.90 a share, for a valuation of €1.95bn to €2.34bn.

Optimal Payments, the Isle of Man-based secure payments provider, has guided pricing on the financing for its acquisition of Skrill, before closing the deal, and replaced amortising loans with a bullet facility.

Nordea returned to the Swiss franc market with a new 10 year senior unsecured benchmark on Tuesday in the first deal from a Scandinavian bank in the currency in more than six months.

Attempts by Turkish banks to go beyond the standard one year refinancing have gathered momentum, with Turk Eximbank joining Akbank in offering a longer tenor.

Penn Engineering had achieved almost unanimous approval for the repricing of its $465m loan and allocated the entire facility by Thursday.

Dell, the US personal computer maker, has closed books on a loan repricing and will increase the deal, although investors put the brakes on a full repricing.

Emaar Misr for Development, the Egyptian property developer, on Thursday released the price range for its initial public offering in Cairo, which values the firm at the mid-point at about E£17.9bn ($2.35bn).

The Egyptian sovereign, although beset by economic and political challenges, still drew hundreds of investors into a $1.5bn 10 year bond on Thursday — marking a triumphant return to the public bond market after a five year absence.

The Gabonese Republic and MFB Hungarian Development Bank have little in common, other than being the best prospects to break the Middle East’s dominance of the CEEMEA benchmark market.