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Refresco Gerber, the Dutch juice and soft drinks bottler, on Tuesday launched the offer period for its Amsterdam listing, announced a fortnight before.

Nordic Nanovector, the Norwegian biotech company, has increased the size of its initial public offering in Oslo to reflect strong investor demand for the deal.

The European Investment Bank has hired banks for its first euro benchmark of the year, joining a slew of issuers finding demand at the long end.

A trio of issuers got dollar deals away on Tuesday ahead of a Federal Open Market Committee meeting wraps up on Wednesday where the US Federal Reserve is expect to drop more hints about the timing of potential rate rises.

Corporación Andina de Fomento made a rare appearance in yen on Tuesday, printing its largest medium term note in the currency in over six years.

Investors will be able to get their teeth into new French agency paper in the coming weeks, as France’s municipal bond agency hired banks to run a debut benchmark.

Two borrowers have added to this year's growing volume of Schuldschein deals, with Ubisoft Entertainment placing an issue and Amer Sports seeking commitments.

Orbit, a UK housing association, has issued its first corporate bond: a £250m secured deal with a 30 year tenor, of which £50m was retained for future issuance.

Moscow Exchange is now trading futures contracts on the onshore Chinese renminbi against the Russian rouble after a substantial increase in renminbi turnover on the exchange and growing volume of settlement in the currency between Russia and China, in addition to new demand for hedging of such transactions.

Volkswagen launched an unexpected hybrid bond on Tuesday, into a corporate bond market weakened by falling rates and heavy supply, and failed to tighten the pricing from initial guidance.

Obrascon Huarte Lain, the Spanish construction company, wants to sell a €425m eight year non-call three bond that would push out its first bond repayment to 2020.

Renaissance Credit has bought back $48.5m of its subordinated 2018s. The exercise enabled it to eliminate the coupon cost on almost a third of the amortising note.