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The stock market has endured its worst summer in years, with the turmoil in China wiping out trillions in market value and causing ripples around the world. But a crucial window will open up for share sales in Asia once China concludes its Golden Week holidays in early October. Issuers should grab the opportunity to light a fire under equity capital markets.

The Loan Ranger's trusty companion Silver travelled to the Middle East to learn about the ways of Arabian stallions and the local market, but returned with tales of strange greeting rituals.

In choosing to leave rates unchanged, the US Federal Reserve on Thursday night opened a window for borrowers to wave through funding. And in its minutes, it suggested that might be a broad window. Good job too.

There was an air of caution in Asia this week ahead of the Federal Open Market Committee (FOMC) meeting. At the time GlobalCapital Asia went to press on Thursday evening, market participants were largely mixed on the prospect of the Fed’s rate hike, but most agreed that its impact on the region’s bond market, irrespective of the direction, would be fairly limited, writes Narae Kim.

China’s National Development and Reform Commission (NDRC) this week released new guidelines for offshore corporate bond issuance. While the move is supposed to further simplify the process and relax existing restrictions, the new rules have created a lot of uncertainty and led to fears that it will make offshore bond issuance more difficult, writes Carrie Hong.

Indian pharmaceutical companies are creating a buzz in the loan market by seeking debt to fund outbound acquisitions. While other sectors in the country are yet to kick off such spending in a big way, the pharmaceutical industry has been an exception, and bankers are hoping for more opportunities to finance purchases. Shruti Chaturvedi reports.

India is trying to get its life insurers out from between a rock and a hard place by pushing ahead with new legislation to ease the way for their IPOs. The move has been a long time coming, but any marquee public offerings from the country’s life insurance firms are still at least a year away, writes John Loh.

It’ll all be over by the time you read this but it’s a big week for markets. Everyone has been waiting with baited breath for the Federal Reserve to get through its two-day meeting and finally put an end to speculation on whether to raise, or not to raise interest rates.

The US risks becoming “incredibly isolated” in its approach to securitization regulation, as Europe and potentially other regions implement standards for high quality securitization, delegates at IMN’s ABS East conference heard.

It seems that Latin America bond fees are going the way of CEEMEA — small to the point of non-existent for some issuers — and that is a frightening prospect. But it is better that banks accept and plan for that now rather than rage against the dying of the wallet.

It is easy to judge banks harshly for accepting or not accepting mandates from certain credits because of the c-word. But compliance departments’ seemingly renewed stringency, while frustrating for EM bankers, is a positive step.

A string of CEEMEA credits are hoping that this week US Federal Reserve chair, Janet Yellen is going to make the primary bond markets a nicer place to be. But even if the hoped for rally does not emerge, borrowers would still be wise to continue as if it had and jump in.