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Rexel, the French maker and distributor of electrical supplies, priced a €500m high yield bond tightly on Wednesday.

Sinochem printed the first ever Swiss franc deal from a Chinese corporate, and did so inside its dollar curve on Thursday thanks to strong demand from local asset managers.

A dollar market that has been a haven for issuers avoiding the troubled euro sector is starting to show signs of congestion, bankers have warned.

Total leveraged its status as a repo eligible name in Switzerland to achieve tight pricing on a new Sfr200m ($214m) 12 year Swiss franc bond on Thursday.

World Bank is targeting Italian retail investors with its latest ethical index linked green bond.

Investors have fought back against the tide of leveraged loan repricings, forcing printing ink maker Flint Group to keep pricing at the wide end of guidance on its €1.5bn transatlantic deal.

Public sector borrowers are looking to the European Financial Stability Facility to calm the increasingly volatile and unpredictable euro debt market, writes Craig McGlashan.

Market sentiment seems lately to swing more wildly between euphoria and despair.

FIG borrowers printed more than $12bn in the US bond market this week as investors continued to pour cash into high-grade credit.

Private placement buyers’ willingness to trade liquidity for yield is pushing an increasing number of European banks to source bail-inable capital away from the public debt market, writes Tom Porter.

Wells Fargo achieved the lowest ever yield in Swiss francs by a US bank on its return to the market on Monday.

Altice, the highly acquisitive French cable telecoms group, is seeking $1.7bn of new dollar debt to back its acquisition of Suddenlink, the seventh biggest cable business in the US.