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Keurig Green Mountain, the US coffee maker, had replies due on Tuesday for a $6.4bn debt package backing its $13.9bn acquisition by JAB, the German investment group.

Turk Eximbank (Turkiye Ihracat Kredi Bankasi) has released initial price thoughts for the first Turkish bond of the year at 425bp area over mid-swaps.

Myanmar’s stock market regulator is set to name the first company to be able to sell its shares on the Yangon Stock Exchange (YSX).

Thai telecoms and media company True Corporation is planning to sell Bt60bn ($1.68m) worth of shares through a rights offering, according to a filing with the Stock Exchange of Thailand.

The Indian government has raised as much as Rp6.37bn ($94.2m) after selling down its 10% stake in Engineers India, with the offering more than twice subscribed - nearly four times so by retail investors.

The Bombay Stock Exchange (BSE) has kicked off its plans to go public, which have been in the works for three years, with a formal request for IPO approval from India’s market regulator.

Mongolian Mining Corp (MMC) has hired two advisers as it seeks to restructure its outstanding bond. The plan comes as the country struggles with declining commodity prices and lower growth in China.

There is a rapidly forming view that China has given up on reform, given up on RMB internationalisation. The solution? Let the RMB float freely as promised, a radical shift in approach that would preserve China’s foreign exchange reserve and put the reform agenda back on track, says Saxobank.

The Republic of Indonesia has chosen five banks to work on a dollar sukuk to be sold in the first quarter of the year.

The Australian subsidiary of US asset manager Vanguard received an additional Rmb20bn ($3.03bn) quota from the State Administration of Foreign Exchange (Safe) on January 27, making the firm the second largest RMB qualified foreign institutional investor (RQFII) globally.

South Korea’s Kookmin Bank issued its second ever covered bond this week, raising $500m from a five year note that was more or less a replica of its debut transaction.

The heir to Samsung Group has raised W382bn ($318.7m) by selling part of his holding in Samsung SDS, a subsidiary of the South Korean conglomerate.