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Harman International Industries, a US maker of audiovisual equipment, has hired banks for its first euro bond, having previously issued only in dollars.

Royal Dutch Shell signed a £10.1bn bridge facility on Friday that will back its acquisition of BG Group. The loan replaces the £3bn facility arranged when the deal was announced on April 8.

NH Hotel Group, the Spanish hotel chain, has pulled its €200m senior unsecured bond issue.

The Dominican Republic returned to bond markets on Thursday with an intraday tap of its 10 and 30 year notes.

Any banker who declared last year that what Europe needed was quantitative easing must, at least, have had some second thoughts recently.

The holding company of Montevideo’s main airport gave bond investors the rare chance to buy Uruguayan corporate paper with the sale of a $200m senior secured bond on Tuesday.

Providing advice to public sector borrowers in the euro market is as hard as it ever was in the teeth of the eurozone debt crisis, despite the years and billions spent trying to solve it. Add to this worsening economics for underwriters and you could legitimately wonder why banks bother. But they must.

Brazil’s Treasury will have to hurry if predictions from DCM bankers that the sovereign will reopen the Brazilian cross-border bond market are to be proven right.

Equity block trade activity was fairly subdued this week in Europe, by recent standards, but there were two interesting trades, in Hispania Activos Inmobiliarios, a Spanish property asset manager, and Ophir Energy, a London-listed oil company active in Africa.

United Wagon Co, the Russian maker and lessor of railway cars, floated on the Moscow Exchange this week, in the first Russian IPO for over a year.

Two initial public offerings were priced at the end of last week, and shot up in the early days of trading, and two more look set to achieve similarly strong results.

Nederlandse Waterschapsbank (NWB) is looking to print its next green bond in dollars, having sold a heavily oversubscribed debut in euros last year.