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China took its first step towards fulfilling its green ambitions this week, announcing a set of guidelines for the issuance of green bonds in the country’s interbank bond market.

The Republic of the Philippines is interested in selling a Panda bond in China's onshore debt market for the first time in 2016.

Sri Lanka’s Commercial Leasing & Finance (CLC) has raised one portion of a $153m syndicated loan from 10 lenders, as the non-banking financial institution sets it sights on developing small and medium enterprises in the country.

Macquarie Securitisation Limited has mandated Macquarie Bank to arrange a new Australian RMBS deal from its Puma shelf, which could hit the market early in 2016.

Diurnal Group, a UK company developing drugs to treat rare chronic hormonal imbalances, completed its Aim IPO for £25m on Monday, gaining a £75m market cap.

Solvay, the Belgian chemical company, achieved a 95% take-up for its €1.5bn rights issue, which concluded last week, to finance its $5.5bn takeover of Cytec Industries – one of 2015’s most prominent M&A financings in the European equity capital market.

Deutsche Bank analysts are expecting a strong 2016 for European bank credit, with tier two in particular tipped to outperform.

German arms maker Heckler & Koch was downgraded to D by Standard & Poor’s on Tuesday, after a partial bond redemption considered as a ‘distressed exchange’.

Asklepios, Europe’s largest privately owned hospital operator, has signed a €365m revolving credit facility for general corporate and refinancing purposes.

Four companies have still not had the equity content of their hybrid bonds restored since Standard & Poor’s stripped the credit from the instruments in October.

The Spanish treasury has named Danske Bank as a primary dealer for its government debt from January 1.

Rentenbank and Bank Netherlands Gemeenten have revealed their funding plans for 2016.