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Standard Chartered's European head of loans is leaving the bank.

Latvia has provided the only point of CEEMEA new issue activity this week so far, though the sovereign is shifting out of the emerging market universe.

At this time of year, attention in the equity capital market is divided between avidly fighting for next year’s mandates, which are beginning to mount up — and counting the spoils from this year. Has it been a good, bad or indifferent year — and for whom?

Qatar National Bank priced its first Australian dollar deal on Tuesday.

The euro market for SSAs is in better health after a destabilising European Central Bank meeting last week, but all eyes are turning to the US where the Federal Reserve looks a dead cert to raise rates after the country reported strong jobs data.

Activity in the covered bond market had been expected to slow down but instead it has been surprisingly busy this week, with as many as three euro benchmarks surfacing over the first three days.

CRCC High-Tech Equipment Corp, a unit of Chinese state-owned China Railway Construction Corp, has raised HK$2.8bn ($361m) from its IPO in Hong Kong after pricing near the bottom of the range.

China Overseas Finance Investment (Cayman) V has opened books on a $1.2bn equity-linked offering of bonds exchangeable into shares of China Overseas Land & Investments.

Ford Auto Finance (China) executed its second auto ABS of the year this week, raising Rmb2.99bn ($467m) with Fuyuan 2015-2 Retail Auto Mortgage Securitization. The amount raised was similar to its last outing in February, but Ford was able to cut its funding costs by an impressive 140bp.

India’s Dewan Housing Finance held a non-deal roadshow in Taipei on December 9 just a few weeks after sealing an offshore dollar loan.

Corporate treasurers across Europe will be thanking Daimler today, as the German car maker took the lead on Tuesday and showed that the bond market is wide open for deals.

Deutsche Bank has suffered another rating agency downgrade, this time from Fitch, which said the German giant had fallen behind its universal banking peers in preparing for tougher regulation.