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  • The green bond wave is set to rise higher in 2016, but as before, most of the deals will not help the environment much. One bond that did was sold in the closing days of 2015 — but such deals are still bought only by a small fraction of investors.
  • Equity markets had an inauspicious start to 2016, as China triggered yet another global sell-off and a new circuit breaker only added to the volatility. Monday was officially the worst-ever start for Chinese shares, but market participants shouldn’t read too much into the turbulence.
  • Latin American bond bankers are already complaining about a bare January pipeline, and a poor first day’s trading in global markets has even prevented several US issuers from getting their funding for the year going. But this should not make Lat Am borrowers hesitate once they are ready for market: conditions are unlikely to get better.
  • As Middle Eastern banks are priced out of deals in their own region by international lenders with lower funding costs, they need to find more deals further afield in Africa and Asia to make decent returns.
  • Markets divisions at investment banks have ruled the roost for years now, but their world is being turned upside down. Soon, nothing will be what it seems anymore.
  • Corporate borrowers in peripheral Europe have a golden opportunity to borrow thanks to the ECB’s targeted long term refinancing operation (TLTRO) help for banks – stalling the march towards bond and private placement predominance.