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Tikehau, the French investment firm, has raised about €326m through two convertible bonds, seeking to fund its growth using some of the most attractive sources of funding available.

Tennet, the Dutch state-owned electricity grid company, sold its first green bond on Thursday, and may have gained a price advantage from the green nature of the deal.

The Finnish City of Vaasa has made its capital markets debut with a private medium term note, as growing demand from European bank treasuries lures more municipalities from Finland to the market.

Glencore has refinanced €15.3bn of facilities, with nine banks leaving the syndicate and one new bank added to the position of mandated lead arranger and bookrunner.

Emirates NBD has sold a trio of private MTNs, including its largest ever in the currency, as Japanese demand grows for the name.

BSN Medical, the German bandage maker, has won a strong response to its new term loan 'C', and has decided to cut pricing on both that and a pre-existing term loan 'B'.

Online travel booking group Expedia made its euro bond debut on Thursday, a seven year deal that will be used to help fund its acquisition of rival company Orbitz.

A barrage of consent solicitations from troubled Ukrainian firms continued this week, with Ferrexpo announcing a second exchange offer on its 2016 dollar bonds and State Export-Import Bank a preliminary restructuring agreement with its own bondholders.

Two German savings banks priced €500m covered bonds this week, ending a three week supply drought. But the real test is yet to come.

Belgian real estate investment trust Befimmo has sold a pair of 10 year private MTNs, as it aims to lock in low rates.

KfW’s second Canadian dollar deal of the year enjoyed strong demand from international investors on Thursday.

The Latvian presidency of the European Council of Ministers and the European Parliament have hammered out a compromise on the new European Fund for Strategic Investments which keeps political influence out of the Fund.