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Robust demand is expected to result in an oversubscription for a dual currency financing to back Indian company Intas Pharmaceuticals’ acquisition of a portfolio of assets in the UK and Ireland.

Equity investors have something new to believe in: fiscal largesse in the US kickstarting global growth. That’s good news for the many companies and banks with capital to raise in 2017 — the trouble is, markets are likely to be as volatile as Donald Trump’s temper. By Jon Hay, additional reporting by Aidan Gregory

On the surface, equity capital markets are a well-oiled machine, built to run over the rocky ground of unpredictable stockmarkets. Beneath the surface, there is a lot of sweat. Banks are having to staff their teams with less money, but do just as many deals. Investors are under the cosh, too, squeezed by weak performance and the march of passive funds. Jon Hay reports.

CEEMEA borrowers had their busiest year since 2013 this year, issuing $157bn of international bonds which is just shy of double 2015’s volumes.

Turkish participation bank Turkiye Finans (TFKB) has agreed a $180m Islamic club loan with similar pricing to its loans in recent years, despite sector-wide downgrades for Turkish banks after a turbulent year in the country in 2016.

Netmarble Games has received the green light to list on the Korea Exchange, paving the way for an estimated W2tr ($1.7bn) IPO next year.

Gitanjali Gems is seeking to list its wholly-owned subsidiary Nakshatra World in an IPO that will raise up to Rp6.5bn ($95.9m).

Four European lenders have turned down a $2bn loan for National Bank of Abu Dhabi (NBAD), while local banks are starting to return to secondary markets for the first time in a year — signs that the Middle Eastern loan market could see a different set of banks driving it in 2017. Elly Whittaker reports.

Citi is boosting links between its private bank, and corporate and investment bank, naming Kevin Lam as Asia Pacific business development head between the two divisions.

National Bank of Abu Dhabi signed a $2bn three year loan on Tuesday, cementing the bank group for its $175bn merger with First Gulf Bank, though some key European banks turned down a role on the deal.

The public sector market is awaiting the final big event of 2016 in the shape of the US Federal Reserve’s rate decision later on Wednesday. But while a US rate rise looks all but a certainty, some funding officials are anxious about the potential for volatility in the dollar market next year from a different source — politics.

Nigeria’s sovereign bond prices have rallied with a new Eurobond expected in January despite the government reporting on Monday N2.2tr ($7bn) of unrecorded debt, equivalent to 2.3% of the country’s GDP.