The European debt capital markets team at Barclays was one of the chief beneficiaries of a glut of issuance this week, as the continent's corporates, banks and SSAs combined to sell $50bn worth of bonds.

Barclays worked on eight deals worth $26bn in the region during the week to Thursday, according to Dealogic. This translated to deal value credit of $6.5bn, leaving it top of the European DCM bookrunner rankings for that period.