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The largest telecoms company in southeast Europe, United Group, on Tuesday sold a €150m tap of its €475m bond offered in 2013 to fund its acquisition by KKR.

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.

The European Financial Stability Facility became the first public sector borrower to sell a €3bn syndication in euros after the European Central Bank began a public sector purchase programme in March.

The World Bank will test the short end in dollars on Wednesday, after a pair of issuers came at opposite ends of the curve on Tuesday.

Slovak Telekom set a price range on Tuesday for its joint Bratislava and London listing that values the company at between €1.5bn and €2bn.

Turkey’s long love affair with the 364 day loan is over, say bankers, after demand shifted overwhelmingly to a novel 367 day tranche in the first three deals of 2015.

As part of Nomad’s acquisition of Iglo, lenders for an outstanding €1.2bn loan have been asked to consent to a change in the company's control.

Quantitative easing is having a marked effect on Europe's high yield market, most bankers and investors agreed. But far from enabling new companies to access the capital markets, it is mainly benefiting established issuers by giving them cheaper interest rates.

Finnish sporting goods company Amer Sports has signed a dual tranche Schuldschein financing to access investors in Asia and Europe.

Standard & Poor’s and Fitch are positive on Nokia’s proposed merger with Alcatel-Lucent but Moody’s is concerned about past, disastrous mergers in the sector.

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

Naturhouse’s initial public offering was not yet covered this morning, a day before the close of bookbuild, but a lead banker told GlobalCapital the deal would no doubt gather the support it needed to go ahead.