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Will 2018 be yet another record year for Asia’s green bond market? The signs were good this week. Swire Properties chose the format for the region’s first dollar bond of the year. Addison Gong reports.

The Indian IPO market has started the new year with a flourish, with the FIG sector looking especially busy as Bandhan Bank and ICICI Securities kicked off investor meetings.

Mexico returned to its habitual role of opening the Latin American bond markets for the year on Wednesday with a $2.6bn trade including a tap of its 2048s to make the most of an exceptionally flat curve.

The dollar market is poised to get off to a flying start to the year in the Nordic region, which hosts all three of this week's scheduled dollar borrowers.

Economic conditions are ripe for the mergers and acquisitions that drive capital markets. Into this mix comes a potential US tax reform more radical than any for decades. This is bound to tilt boardroom decisions about strategy — if nothing else, US CEOs could suddenly have more cash back at HQ than they know what to do with. Jon Hay and Sam Kerr report.

Investment grade corporate bond market players only had to wait one day for the first new deals of 2018. Renault and BMW both brought new paper to market on Wednesday, selling a total of €2.75bn of bonds with little premium.

European retail-targeted equity funds, in aggregate, sold some of their positions during December, but year to date flows were still positive for the asset class.

Swire Properties is set to become Asia ex-Japan's first issuer of international bonds in the new year, opening books for a 10 year dollar green deal on Wednesday morning.

The European high yield bond market may have endured a year of multi-billion outflows from retail funds but investors and bankers on the first business week of 2018 are predicting a busy first quarter of supply will be met with sufficient demand.

Hong Kong’s Swire Properties is gearing up to become one of the first offshore bond issuers of the year, taking feedback from the market for a potential dollar-denominated green deal.

Dealogic could be one of the last leveraged loan deals to close in 2017. With allocations of its dividend recapitalisation loans due on Friday, the deal is likely to cap what has been an all-time record year of issuance in the European leveraged loan market.

Chinese technology company JD.com has doubled its maiden offshore loan to $1bn, thanks to commitments from 18 lenders during primary syndication.