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  • Secondary levels in emerging markets are moving sharply tighter early in 2019, but issuers remain difficult to tempt into the primary market.
  • The Reserve Bank of India’s recent relaxation of rules governing offshore fundraising is set to give a fillip to dollar loan volumes from the country, bankers told GlobalCapital Asia this week.
  • The China Securities Regulatory Commission (CSRC) has cut the membership of its IPO review committee by two thirds, from 63 to 21. Of those 21, there are 12 new members.
  • Srei Infrastructure Finance has mothballed a plan to float its subsidiary Srei Equipment Finance as risk-off sentiment drives valuations down in India’s IPO market.
  • The Reserve Bank of India’s recent reforms to its external commercial borrowings (ECB) policy make for a simpler and looser process for firms raising debt offshore. But the central bank has also put up new roadblocks for issuers that could drastically affect their access to capital markets.
  • Asia’s offshore bond market has had a strong start to the year, moving past the doom and gloom that ended 2018. But there are already signs that the difficult conditions that defined last year may only be around the corner.