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CEEMEA bonds performed well on Thursday after the US Federal Reserve’s first rate rise since 2006. DCM bankers said that the lack of fallout after the hike will ease the entry of CEEMEA issuers into the market in January.

ECM bankers were jovial on Thursday, as the stock markets rose after Fed chair Janet Yellen said exactly what everyone expected her to say: that interest rates would finally start rising. But poor market performance on Friday looked set to quickly wipe out most of those gains.

SSA issuers are readying themselves for a busy 2016 after the Fed eased the markets into a higher rates environment on Thursday.

MTN investors are speculating that the huge yield available on Argentine peso bonds may be worth the risk of buying bonds denominated in a currency which is undergoing official devaluation.

The European high yield bond market tightened on news of the Federal Reserve’s rate hike but syndicate desks are still wary that the ugly situation in the US may have knock on effects in their market.

Norway listed shipping companies Frontline and Nordic American Tankers closed their respective refinancing deals on Thursday. They joined a wave of the region’s borrowers seeking to close deals ahead of the holiday season.

Corporate syndicate desks were given a comforting send off to the year after the US Federal Reserve’s rate hike on Wednesday, with bond market reactions indicating a good start to 2016.

As the Spanish populace geared up for a general election over the weekend, the Spanish Treasury wound down its 2015 auction programme with a sale at the lower end of its target volume range on Thursday.

Société Générale has appointed a new global head of infrastructure finance with nine year's experience in infrastructure project financing at the French bank.

A US public sector borrower will bring a large green bond which will startle the US market, according to one market expert, as green bonds gain further importance after COP 21.

Grosvenor Fund Management has completed the refinancing of Grosvenor Liverpool Fund, owner of the 2.4m square feet Liverpool One shopping centre.

Dexter Axle, the US car axle maker, looks set to allocate its leveraged loan package by Friday midday, after having reduced the size of the deal.