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HSBC and Barclays were the leading houses in SSAs by deal volume year to date in 2015 but overall volumes were down on 2014 and are expected to fall again next year.

Another foreign issuer has joined the German Schuldschein market, as Sweden's Saab signs its first ever deal. It was arranged by two non-German banks.

Sovcomflot, Russia’s largest shipping company, has signed a $340m bilateral loan with Sberbank CIB. In previous years it regularly obtained syndicated loans from international banks.

Four Panda bonds have been issued since China reopened the market in the end of September. While this is a great start, Pandas will need a lot more issuance and a matching mature investor base to go further in 2016, said Tu Hong, general manager of global markets centre, at Bank of Communications to GlobalRMB.

Chinese residential property manager Greentown Service Group has filed a preliminary prospectus with the Hong Kong Stock Exchange as it vies to float on the city’s main board.

Hong Kong Exchanges and Clearing (HKEx) is boosting its environmental, social and governance (ESG) reporting guidelines after its consultation to upgrade them saw strong support from market respondents.

The Singapore Exchange (SGX) has created a bulletin on its website that for the first time will shed light on non-public regulatory action it has taken in response to breaches of the listing rules.

Argentine sovereign bonds hit highs for the year on Monday after the US court-appointed mediator in the holdout dispute said that the country’s secretary of finance and vice-chief of cabinet would return to New York to negotiate with bond investors in the second week of January.

The Kingdom of Thailand has outlined its plans for debt funding in 2016. Bond issuance will be mostly done in the domestic market, but the sovereign is open to issuing a dollar-denominated offering in the second half of the year.

Stocks in Madrid tumbled on Monday, after Sunday’s election left the country without a clear prospect of a stable government. Yet one of the best performing shares was Fomento de Construcción y Contratas, the construction company, which maintained nearly all its gain after last Thursday’s news of a €709.5m rights issue.

Spain's inability to reach a decisive result in its general election sent European credit default swap markets wider on Monday, although dealer desks said trading was very thin.