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Turkey’s Garanti Bank and Finansbank have signed one year loans, completing the second round of refinancings for Turkey’s large commercial banks.

Attendo, the Swedish healthcare provider, leapt up 46% in the first few minutes of trading on Monday morning, after its Skr4.33bn (€467m) Stockholm IPO, whose bookbuild ended on Friday, well oversubscribed.

Two of Italy's 12 largest banks are below their capital requirements, according to the European Central Bank’s supervisory review and evaluation process (SREP).

Mizuho International appointed a new head of EMEA financial institutions and risk solutions on Monday.

The Hungarian Development Bank has mandated three banks for a global investor call in the hope of drumming up enough demand to print a euro-denominated Reg S bond.

Turkish bank Yapi ve Kredi Bankasi has hired four banks to arrange a dollar tier two bond that it expects to issue in early 2016, using the December quiet spell to capture credit investors’ attention.

State-owned Indian companies National Thermal Power Corp (NTPC) and Hindustan Petroleum Corp (HPCL) have hit the syndicated loan market with separate requests for proposals.

November was a big month for the RMB qualified foreign institutional investor (RQFII) programme. One new jurisdiction, Malaysia, entered the arena, while Bank of China Luxembourg (BoC Luxembourg) and ICBC (Europe) became the first Luxembourg quota recipients.

Offshore renminbi funding costs have increased 100bp-150bp in recent weeks after China’s central bank shut down cross-border lending. The move was designed to reduce volatility in offshore renminbi (CNH) ahead of the IMF decision on its Special Drawing Rights basket, several offshore traders have said to GlobalRMB.

India’s Dr Lal PathLabs has firmed up terms for its Rp6.32bn ($95m) IPO, with the small size of the transaction giving leads the confidence of a positive response when the deal launches.

India’s Reliance Industries is back in the market to refinance a $1bn loan from 2010, just days after signing a $1.5bn facility.

A $125m loan for Bharat PetroResources International (BPRL), a subsidiary of Bharat Petroleum Corp, has wound up with demand driven by Taiwanese lenders.