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Ukrainian mining and steel company Metinvest is asking holders of its three outstanding Eurobonds for a maturity extension and a waiver for default events.

Republic of Turkey is making its second appearance of the year in dollars and is out with an 11 year benchmark bond

Royal Dutch Shell’s £47bn takeover offer for BG Group may bypass the public equity capital market — at any rate, no public issue has been mentioned to finance the £13.1bn cash element of the purchase price. But Shell has raised its asset disposal target for 2016-18 to $30bn.

Always one for superlatives, Republic of Mexico has shocked the market with what looks set to be the largest euro century bond, and the first from a sovereign. Leads Goldman Sachs and HSBC are talking the 100 year euro-denominated note at 4.5% area.

Mandarin Oriental International and Metropolitan Bank have wrapped up their rights issues as they shore up their balance sheets.

Bankers working on loans for International Bank of Azerbaijan (IBA) and its peer AccessBank say they are progressing well and could be completed by mid-month.

With less than two months before summer slows it all back down, the FIG market has a lot to get done in April. Yet the pipeline is fairly sparse — only ING, with its debut additional tier one, and Achmea Bank, with a euro denominated senior deal, are meeting with investors for deals.

French lender BNP Paribas has appointed Philippe Aroyo, a long-serving executive, to head its business in Malaysia with effect from April 8.

A strong pledge from the Greek government to meet its debt repayments has improved conditions for issuance in the sovereign, supranational and agency market this week — but with next week set to be far busier for deals, bankers are hoping the momentum is maintained.

The Korean DCM market is finally showing some signs of life, with Shinhan Bank opening books for a dollar denominated bond on April 8. Even though the Korean lender is expected to print a deal of only $350m-$500m, market observers are still excited by its appearance as it could be the first of a long list of names.

Noble Group, a commodities supplier, has launched into general a $2.25bn financing that is being led by a 15-strong group of banks.

The Indian government is set to raise around Rp15.6bn ($250m) by divesting a 5% stake in Rural Electrification Corp, with books for the offer for sale (OFS) opening on April 8 and ending up oversubscribed pretty quickly.