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A director for responsible investment at a large asset manager has written to the CEO of the UK Debt Management Office pleading the case for the country to start issuing green bonds, as recommended by a government inquiry last year.

Europe’s next crop of IPOs are being prepared for lift-off next week despite heightened bearishness over US-China trade disagreements. Underwriters and issuers are keen to close deals before investors shut up shop for the summer.

The World Bank sold its first 10 year euro benchmark since 2009 on Tuesday, with the supranational going slightly through its own curve on its return, according to onlooking SSA bankers.

Covered bonds issued on Tuesday by UniCredit Bank AG and Hypo Vorarlberg Bank (HVB) found good demand, mainly from bank investors. Despite their meagre and diminishing returns, the bonds offered a better spread compared to other regulated assets.

Fidelity National Information Services (FIS) went to market today to issue a six-tranche euro and a two tranche sterling deal. It intends to raise debt to finance the acquisition of Worldpay as announced last month.

Novolipetsk Steel (NLMK), a Russian steelmaker, is embarking on a roadshow to market a dollar benchmark bond with a five to seven year maturity as issuers and investors brush off the risks of further US sanctions on the country.

Banks working on the IPO of Finablr, the financial holding company that owns Travelex, had to reduce the price of the IPO and extended the books to 3pm on Tuesday, in order to price the transaction.

All3Media, a subsidiary of Liberty Global and Discovery, which makes TV shows including ‘Fleabag’, ‘Call the Midwife’ and ‘Peep Show’, is in the market with a term loan B to refinance debt.

Private debt and loans bankers are trying to work out possible approaches to the City of London Corporation’s plans to return to capital markets for the first time in a generation when it looks to raise around £1.75bn ($2.24bn) over the next three years, writes Mike Turner.

Emerging market loan volumes continue to suffer with year-to-date volumes down 60% from the same period in 2018. Global economic slowdown and the fear of trade wars, combined with the increasing appeal of the bond market, are dampening the prospects of recovery in the syndicated loan market in 2019.

Global equity markets suffered their worst days of the year this week after an apparent breakdown in trade talks between the US and China, causing investors to sell and volatility to spike and possibly wrecking equity issuance plans, write Sam Kerr and Ross Lancaster.

It should not have been a good week for CEEMEA bonds. Fears of an escalating trade war between the US and China, a re-run of mayoral elections in Istanbul that many are calling the end of democracy in Turkey, South Africa national elections and the spectre of US sanctions on Russia would normally have killed the primary market. But issuers kept on printing and bonds rallied, writes Francesca Young, with next week's pipeline filling up.