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In part three of GlobalCapital Asia's awards results announcements, we reveal the winning bond deals across different categories, as well as the best debt houses and the best bank for SRI financing.

In the second part of GlobalCapital Asia’s awards announcements, we reveal the standout deals and banks in the equity capital market.

The sustainable finance market clamoured for a Taxonomy to tell it what was green. Now it’s here, many are finding the answers constraining or simplistic. Alarmingly, the Taxonomy is also perpetuating the very thing it was supposed to root out — greenwashing.

The UK securing a trade deal with the EU will be crucial for UK companies wanting to raise equity capital next year. It will give shareholders far more confidence in future revenues that have already been rocked by Covid-19.

Sovereign and corporate debt has rocketed during the coronavirus pandemic, as liquidity became the essential plaster to cover the almost overnight collapse in consumer spending. European treasurers might be tempted to spend 2021 shying away from the bond market and licking their wounds. This is the wrong choice.

Since 2018, Raiffeisen Bank International has issued several green bonds. Targeting private and institutional investors, the bonds support the growth of green financing at RBI’s headquarters and across its subsidiary banks in CEE, thereby facilitating a reduction of more than 60,000 metric tons of CO2 emissions per year. This corresponds to the annual greenhouse gas emissions of more than 13,000 cars or almost 7,000 households.

GlobalCapital Asia has spent the last two months talking to banks and their clients to determine the most impressive capital markets transactions and advisers across Asia ex-Japan in 2020, a volatile and unpredictable year. We are pleased to begin our awards announcements in the loan market.

Too many Chinese investors focus on the originator more than the asset pool. That undermines one of the crucial purposes of securitization.

Europe's merry-go-round for senior bankers jerked forwards last week. Most dramatically, Jean Pierre Mustier is leaving UniCredit: he will not stay beyond April 2021, the end of his current mandate. The French chief executive disagreed with board members over strategy, and in particular whether the bank should concentrate more on Italy.

In this round-up, China posts stronger-than-expected export data for November, the banking and insurance regulator fines Bank of China over ‘irregularities’ in a crude oil product, and an Ant Group unit and a Greenland-led consortium win digital banking licences.

This week in Keeping Tabs: attractive credit picks, physical shops adapting to online retail and a new drama about investment banking.

In this round-up, China unveils guidelines to assess its domestic systemically important banks, both the November Caixin China manufacturing and general services Purchasing Managers’ Indexes beat expectations, and the US House of Representatives waves through a bill that could delist Chinese companies from its stock exchanges.