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The amount of discretion afforded national regulators for bank resolution is making it near impossible for investors to judge the relative risk of holdco and opco capital, writes Tom Porter.

Qatar-based Al Khaliji Commercial Bank sold its first ever privately placed medium term notes this week.

The European Financial Stability Facility may not have to print oversubscribed benchmarks just to show that the eurozone isn’t falling apart any more, but it still has to step up on occasion.

Credit Suisse became the fifth European financial name to tap the Australian dollar market in less than a month on Thursday.

The post earnings supply deluge continued this week as Citigroup, Goldman Sachs, Morgan Stanley and Wells Fargo all hit the US bond market.

A group of supranationals has published guidelines for green bond impact reporting, hoping to make it easier for investors to make comparisons within the asset class.

AT&T stormed into the dollar market this week with a $17.5bn deal that opens the way for a deluge of M&A-related financings as corporate America emerged from earnings blackout.

The euro market risks another difficult week, with the prospects for issuance highly dependent on political developments over the weekend, according to syndicate bankers.

While markets have retraced much of the change in convexity costs seen in late 2014, it looks as though investors are content to price variance at a higher level.

Three euro benchmark covered bonds were issued this week from borrowers in Belgium, Norway and the Netherlands. But it was the debut Dutch conditional pass through (CPT) structure from Van Lanschot Bankiers that proved the most interesting.

United Wagon Co, a Russian maker and lessor of railway cars, has set the price range for its IPO, the first in Russia for over a year.

Nationwide Building Society and ASB Bank tapped the senior unsecured sterling market this week, bringing what are likely to be among the last trades in the currency before a break before the UK general election.