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A green bond policy guide, launched at COP21 on Wednesday, called on global regulators to alter their risk weightings on green bonds in order to incentivise issuance.

State-owned refiner Bharat Petroleum Corp has sent out a request for proposals for a $200m deal, coming to the market eight months after it cancelled a loan in favour of a bond.

CRCC High-Tech Equipment Corp has raised HK$2.8bn ($360m) from a Hong Kong IPO after pricing near the floor of its range.

American International Group raised HK$5.83bn ($752.26m) on Monday from an overnight share sale in PICC Property and Casualty Co, as it seized what may have been the last window for a large block trade this year.

The Singapore Exchange is closing the year on a positive note thanks to BHG Retail Reit, which this week raised S$255.8m ($181m) from the country’s first and only mainboard IPO of the year.

Bank of Zhengzhou has launched bookbuilding for its HK$5.56bn ($717.4m) Hong Kong IPO, with over half the book already covered by six cornerstone investors.

Kuwait petrochemicals firm Equate has delayed signing $6bn of loans until next week because the firm’s board members are still waiting on approvals, said bankers.

The Basel Committee on Banking Supervision has dropped proposals to ban banks from using agency ratings in their internal risk-weighted asset models, a move which could save the industry the job of raising billions in extra capital.

China Construction Bank broke the pricing record for the Asian additional tier one (AT1) sector this week, raising $3.05bn with a headline coupon of just 4.65%. Although this was the lowest coupon ever achieved by an Asian bank in the AT1 market, investors were more than happy to pour into the trade.

Inner Mongolia-based China Shengmu Organic Milk is testing appetite in the syndicated loan market for a $120m three year facility and is offering banks an attractive yield of more than 300bp.

China Nuclear Engineering Group Corporation (CNEC) is struggling to get its debut dim sum offering off the ground. The company has set its sights on a deal before the end of the year, but sources say the management’s unrealistic pricing targets are not going down well with investors.

Lloyds Bank's shares rose 1.5% on Thursday after the Court of Appeal ruled a series of high coupon enhanced capital notes sold to retail investors in 2009 had become useless for future UK stress tests and could be called at par.