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BlackRock is set to price its first ever euro senior unsecured trade on Tuesday, opening books for a SEC registered 10 year print that had syndicate bankers struggling to pin down relative value.

Germany has updated its draft bail-in law, aligning Schuldscheine and registered bonds with senior unsecured as Total Loss Absorbing Capacity (TLAC) eligible debt.

The Polish sovereign is on track to price a three year Swiss franc deal on Tuesday afternoon, which would be the first ever public emerging market bond to offer a negative yield.

Emirates Telecommunications Corp (Etisalat) has released final price guidance for a $400m tap of its $500m 2.375% June 2019s that equates to around a 7.5bp new issue premium, according to an analyst in London.

China Galaxy Securities has raised a jumbo HK$23.98bn ($3.1bn) via a private placement of H-shares, in what is now the third largest follow-on offering in Asia ex-Japan this year. The deal followed an extensive wall-crossing process completed over the weekend, with Chinese investors piling into the transaction.

Oil and gas giant China National Offshore Oil Corporation (CNOOC) opened books to a multi-tranche dollar offering on April 28 in a bid to take advantage of a buoyant primary Asian bond market.

Nidera, the Dutch grain trading company, has signed a $900m working capital revolving credit facility after at least three months in syndication.

Low-cost airlines VietJet Air has signed up three banks to co-ordinate a planned $200m-$300m IPO, with decisions about which exchange to list the shares still up in the air.

Bank of India (BOI) is back in the dollar bond market on Tuesday, April 28, breaking two years of silence.

Hong Kong utility firm CLP Power made a successful return to the dollar bond market on April 27, with a $300m offering that had investors scurrying for more, thanks to a book that was almost 10 times covered.

UFO Moviez has pressed the play button on its Rp6.125bn ($96m) Indian IPO, starting the bookbuilding process on April 28. The deal has already seen some strong names coming in as anchor investors, but volatility in the secondary market is creating a big distraction to investors.

Rumours of more easing by the People's Bank of China (PBoC) have triggered a CNY rates rally and good receiving in one to five year CNY swaps so far this week. Domestic payers emerged in the one year sector on Tuesday, flattening the 1s/5s NDIRS slope, writes Deirdre Yeung of Total Derivatives.