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Pets at Home, the UK pet food and accessories retailer, has refinanced a credit facility, reducing its size from £325m to £260m.

Wells Fargo launched its first sterling bond issue in over two years on Wednesday, showing the appeal of euro funding to US banks has faded since January.

Indonesia’s Sumber Alfaria Trijaya has raised Rph1.54tr ($119m) from a combination of a top-up placement and a one-on-one subscription of shares, as part of a non pre-emptive offering that the company is contemplating.

Standard Chartered plans to be a regular face in the dollar senior market as a result of Total Loss Absorbing Capacity (TLAC) regulation, after making a rare appearance this week with its first four tranche dollar trade.

Changing investor attitudes towards contractual point of non-viability allowed Commonwealth Bank of Australia to draw a solid order book for a euro tier two deal on Wednesday.

Moroccan fertilizer company OCP has released initial price guidance of 4.875% area for a 10.5 year dollar benchmark, offering around a 12.5bp new issue premium for the deal.

Malaysia is making a rare appearance in the dollar market, opening books to a dual tranche offering on April 15. While the country’s first dollar outing in almost four years is already headline-worthy enough, the transaction is also notable for equaling Malaysia's record in terms of deal maturity.

Turkiye Sinai Kalkinma Bankasi has tightened price guidance for its $350m five year bond to at 375bp-387.5bp over mid-swaps.

New quarter, new money. The covered bond market swallowed five new deals on Tuesday and FIG bankers are predicting a surge of periphery and subordinated paper from banks in the next few sessions as issuers hunt fresh cash from investors.

Indomobil Finance Indonesia has returned to the loans market for a $100m three year facility. The company has picked three mandated lead arrangers and bookrunners for the trade, which launched into general on April 14.

SSA borrowers are struggling without a pricing rudder, while Wednesday's ECB meeting showed they aren't the only ones with central bank troubles.

Two CEEMEA issuers have guidance out for new bonds — Moroccan fertiliser company OCP and Turkish bank TSKB — leading to hopes that the second half of this week will hold more new paper than the first.