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Neil Garrod, group treasury director at Vodafone and one of the best known figures in the European corporate bond market, is understood to be leaving the UK mobile phone group. He is in talks with another company about becoming its finance chief.

First Abu Dhabi Bank has printed two sterling private placements in the last week — the most recent Tuesday morning’s £120m note through JP Morgan — adding to a flurry of sterling trades from the Middle East.

Another day, another Santander call option. The bank revealed this week that it will call its 6.375% $1.5bn additional tier one perpetual note. In February it became the first bank ever to extend the life of an AT1, but its move this week gave market participants better insight into how it is likely to treat call decisions.

Toronto-Dominion Bank has become the first Canadian issuer to launch a bail-inable senior bond publicly in euros, impressing on-looking bankers by landing the deal with a very tight spread to mid-swaps.

Latin America’s largest telecoms company, América Móvil, sold dollar bonds for the first time in seven years on Monday, returning to refinance debt and establish two benchmarks.

Greece is rumoured to be planning a return to the bond market in the summer to fund an early repayment of its loans to the International Monetary Fund.

La Banque Postale saved around 2bp on pricing by going green on its latest inaugural 10 year senior non-preferred paper, reaffirming the discrepancy between supply and demand in the euro green bond market.

New York Life has returned to the sterling market for a third time as it looks to build out a maturity curve in the currency. Its latest offering proved to be its most popular sterling bond to date.

Banco BPM split opinion with a debut additional tier one bond this week, paying up to issue but proving that there’s a chance for the middle tier of Italy to access the market. The bank joined only two other Italians in having sold deals in the asset class — the national champion banks Intesa Sanpaolo and UniCredit, writes David Freitas.

Turkey’s finance minister, Berat Albayrak, announced an economic reform programme on Wednesday that left bond investors underwhelmed by promises of TL28bn ($4.88bn) of capital support for Turkey’s state banks. However, the loans refinancing season is progressing undeterred.

The Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank is pushing forward plans for its highly anticipated debut bond, which may arrive before the end of the summer. Senior SSA bankers say the AIIB will claim a seat at the summit with the rest of the top rated dollar based supranational borrowers in the public sector bond market, writes Burhan Khadbai.

Saudi Aramco might have expected a $12bn bond it issued on Tuesday to be hailed as a triumph, coming as it did well inside its sovereign curve after taking orders that at one point reached $100bn. But after pricing, the demand evaporated, the bonds fell below reoffer, and the notion that the European Market Abuse Regulation has ended the practice of order inflation was left in tatters.