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The German Pfandbrief issuing subsidiary of the Dutch bank, ING Diba, is expected to open books for a 10 year mortgage backed deal, its first in three years.

Turkish bonds sold off some 30bp on Friday after President Recep Erdogan’s crackdown on the country’s pro-Kurdish opposition escalated with two high profile arrests. The widening is likely to halt Turkish bond issuance for this year, according to an EM DCM banker focused on the region.

Equity capital markets are bracing for the US presidential election on Tuesday. Participants believe Hillary Clinton is narrowly more likely to win, but that stockmarkets around the world would fall if Donald Trump won.

The European Stability Mechanism has reduced its funding needs after accepting a €1bn early loan repayment from Spain.

A victory for Hillary Clinton in Tuesday’s US presidential election — made more likely by the Federal Bureau of Investigation saying over the weekend that it found no evidence of criminality in a batch of her emails it had investigated — would likely see a return to “business as usual” for public sector bond markets and a US rate rise in December, said market participants on Monday.

Etihad Airways will begin investor meetings on a reverse enquiry for an intermediate sukuk, the successful placement of which will result in the borrower’s first ever standalone bond.

Gina Miller, the fund management executive who won the court case to give the UK’s Parliament a say on triggering Article 50, said the government has no grounds for its planned appeal to the Supreme Court. Her side could be joined by Scotland, Wales, Northern Ireland and Gibraltar for the appeal hearing.

State-owned Abu Dhabi banks ADCB and NBAD have taken a very different approach to the loan market, with one bank paying up to bring in new lenders and the other demanding tight relationship pricing.

Emerging market assets were buoyed by a turn in sentiment over the weekend as the Federal Bureau of Investigation's second probe into Hilary Clinton's emails was dropped. However, buying was limited as investors adopted a cautious stance ahead of the election and .

Citi has promoted its Turkey CEO into a broader role of EMEA head of non-presence countries.

Argentina’s return to international bond markets this year broke many records, and its after-market performance has been equally stunning. It has also changed investors’ concerns. Previously preoccupied with court rulings, an unpredictable government, legal technicalities and a curve comprising an assortment of complex instruments, bondholders now are looking at more conventional credit issues and can enjoy a normalised dollar curve with several liquid points. The buyside is now assessing inflation and inflation expectations, GDP growth and FDI, and — crucially — progress on the fiscal deficit.

Luis Caputo had been head of LatAm trading at Deutsche Bank and JP Morgan, but he’d never done a deal as important as the one facing him at the start of 2016. Few — if any — bankers ever do. Argentina’s finance secretary, known in the market as “Toto”, led the nation’s negotiations with holdout creditors, achieving a faster and cheaper resolution than most expected. This has left Caputo confident that the government will be able to do just as good a job in tackling the outstanding issues facing the economy.