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Cellnex, the Spanish telecoms tower business, is expected to start trading in Madrid on Thursday May 7, having priced its IPO on Tuesday evening at €14 a share – the top end of the range.

Haniel launched on Wednesday evening a combined sale of Metro shares and notes exchangeable into Metro shares, in an overnight deal that could total €1bn and was set to tap heavily into Europe’s increasing trend toward negative yields.

The Australian Securities Exchange has launched FlexClear, an over-the-counter service for equities options that is expected to benefit buyside firms looking to tailor strategies through central clearing.

Windeln.de, the German online baby products seller, dropped 18% today on its first day of trading in Frankfurt – a bitter conclusion to an IPO process that had appeared to run smoothly until then.

English premiership rugby club Wasps has raised £35m by selling a 6.5% seven year retail bond. The bond is secured on assets including the Ricoh Arena stadium in Coventry, which the club bought last year.

Titanium, fluoroproducts and chemical solutions business Chemours sold $2.5bn of senior unsecured notes on Tuesday, proceeds of which will go to its parent, DuPont, in the form of a dividend.

Sweden priced an oversubscribed $2.25bn three year on Wednesday while a German state attracted strong demand to its debut in the currency.

Spain is likely to pay higher borrowing costs than at any point this year at an auction on Thursday, as a volatile period for eurozone government bonds rumbles on from last week.

German airline Deutsche Lufthansa has held an investor call for its postponed hybrid capital bond issue, after making a €133m operating loss in the first quarter of 2015, smaller than a year ago.

Banks’ withdrawal from the commercial paper market is providing a boon to European SSAs, which have found strong demand for their sterling paper.

Central Bank of Savings Banks Finland on Wednesday sold its first privately placed medium term note and is set to print more in coming weeks.

Mining company Petra Diamond is planning to price a $300m high yield bond debut on Wednesday afternoon.