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Dufry, the Swiss duty free shop chain, will on June 11 start building the book for the Sfr2.2bn ($2.4bn) rights issue it signalled in March, as part of the financing for its €3.6bn takeover of World Duty Free.

BC Partners sold its last shares in Foxtons Group, the UK estate agents, on the evening of Wednesday June 3, in an accelerated bookbuild managed by Jefferies.

Three more firms joined the long list of prospective IPO issuers on Wednesday, as Cairn Homes, Sophos and Euskatel released intentions to float.

Oil futures markets have experienced a marked lack of volatility in recent sessions, despite the Organisation of the Petroleum Exporting Countries (Opec) meeting in Vienna on Friday.

Motability Operations Group, the UK provider of cars and powered wheelchairs for disabled people, drew a chunky order book for an eight year euro bond on Wednesday, using a generous new issue premium to offset difficult market conditions.

The Finanzagentur is set to make its first appearance in syndicated format since 2009 with a 30 year inflation linker that will extend the sovereign’s inflation linked curve.

The latest developments in Greece’s negotiations with its creditors appear to have comforted investors. The country’s two year yield has fallen over 100bp this week.

European Investment Bank tapped a 2021 sterling floating rate note for £250m on Wednesday. Some sterling buyers are moving from the short end to the belly of the curve in search of yield, said SSA bankers.

Ineos, the UK chemical company registered in Switzerland, is allocating €2bn of leveraged loans after an amend-and-extend exercise that led to refinancing some dollar debt.

Podemos, the Spanish left wing party, will meet representatives of the International Monetary Fund on Friday, to discuss Podemos's ideas about dealing with Spain's national debt.

Latvenergo, a state-owned Latvian electricity company, opened books on a sub-benchmark sized green bond on Wednesday morning — its first ever international bond deal and Latvia's first green bond.

Santander UK’s debut additional tier one (AT1) impressed on Wednesday, drawing £5bn of demand and lending confidence to a string of issuers looking to print before the summer amid tricky conditions.