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La Banque Postale saved around 2bp on pricing by going green on its latest inaugural 10 year senior non-preferred paper, reaffirming the discrepancy between supply and demand in the euro green bond market.

New York Life has returned to the sterling market for a third time as it looks to build out a maturity curve in the currency. Its latest offering proved to be its most popular sterling bond to date.

Banco BPM split opinion with a debut additional tier one bond this week, paying up to issue but proving that there’s a chance for the middle tier of Italy to access the market. The bank joined only two other Italians in having sold deals in the asset class — the national champion banks Intesa Sanpaolo and UniCredit, writes David Freitas.

Turkey’s finance minister, Berat Albayrak, announced an economic reform programme on Wednesday that left bond investors underwhelmed by promises of TL28bn ($4.88bn) of capital support for Turkey’s state banks. However, the loans refinancing season is progressing undeterred.

The Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank is pushing forward plans for its highly anticipated debut bond, which may arrive before the end of the summer. Senior SSA bankers say the AIIB will claim a seat at the summit with the rest of the top rated dollar based supranational borrowers in the public sector bond market, writes Burhan Khadbai.

Saudi Aramco might have expected a $12bn bond it issued on Tuesday to be hailed as a triumph, coming as it did well inside its sovereign curve after taking orders that at one point reached $100bn. But after pricing, the demand evaporated, the bonds fell below reoffer, and the notion that the European Market Abuse Regulation has ended the practice of order inflation was left in tatters.

The decision by the European Union and UK on Wednesday night to extend the country’s membership of the bloc until October 31 prolongs the uncertainty that is deterring UK companies from attempting IPOs.

CPI Property Group, a central and Eastern European specialist, raised €550m from a hybrid bond on Tuesday, but the debt slumped on Wednesday when a US hedge fund with which it has been fighting a legal battle filed a new $1bn lawsuit in New York. David Greenbaum, CPI’s CFO, told GlobalCapital the allegations were ridiculous and had been concocted in a deliberate attempt to disrupt the deal.

GTLK, Russia’s state transport leasing company, printed a $500m six year bond on Wednesday from a book of just over $1.5bn.

Ecobank Transnational, the pan-African banking group based in Togo, has set the yield for a $400m five year bond at 9.75%. The size indicated is at the lower end of the $400m-$500m range it suggested earlier in the day.

This week the US Federal Reserve side-stepped the question of whether it should apply new liquidity and capital rules to the US branches of foreign banks, publishing proposals that instead focused on tailoring requirements for their intermediate holding companies (IHCs).

Thames Water’s latest crop of holding company private placement debt issues contains language to protect investors from the effect of a Labour government — and particularly leader Jeremy Corbyn's vow to renationalise the water companies. Debt issued under the new documents features a ‘nationalisation event’ that would make it repayable immediately. Owen Sanderson and Silas Brown report.