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Turkish participation lender Kuveyt Türk will open Germany’s first wholly Sharia-compliant bank in July, and plans to expand into other European countries, the bank’s managing director told IFIS.

Emirates Airlines is planning on landing its UK Export Finance backed sukuk on Wednesday, and has set a pricing range for the groundbreaking deal.

Eurex will launch options on Euro-Bund futures with weekly expiries in April, which will allow investors to gain short term exposure to interest rate moves and event-driven activity, experts say.

Hoist Finance, the Swedish firm specialised in buying and managing unsecured non-performing consumer loans, is today closing the book of its Stockholm IPO.

Two equity block trades are in the market tonight, both in supermarket groups: Russia’s Lenta and France’s Carrefour.

Aabar Investments, the investment arm of Abu Dhabi’s International Petroleum Investment Corp, is this evening bookbuilding a bond of €1.5bn to €2bn, exchangeable into shares of UniCredit.

Shawbrook, the UK challenger bank, today launched the bookbuilding phase of its initial public offering, as the firm looks to raise at least £180m on the London Stock Exchange.

French water and waste management company Suez Environnement has refinanced its hybrid bond, due to be called in September, with a new €500m non-call seven year hybrid.

Deutsche Annington (DAIG), the German housing company, has issued a €500m five year and a €500m 10 year bond.

Esterline Technologies Corp on Monday announced it would offer €330m of senior unsecured bonds, the fifth high yield issue in euros from a US company in March.

Sterling is an enticing proposition for SSAs this week thanks to an attractive basis swap into euros and smaller execution risk than the single currency — and one issuer is taking advantage.

The SSA market is set to welcome a new name this week, after a French agency hit screens with initial price thoughts for a debut benchmark.