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While it’s a now presumed the renminbi will make it into the IMF’s Special Drawing Rights (SDR) basket, one thing still up for debate is the size of inflows into the currency. GlobalRMB rounds up some of the predictions in the market.

CRCC High-Tech Equipment Corp, a unit of Chinese state-owned China Railway Construction Corp, opened books on Monday for a HK$3.06bn ($395m) IPO, with the company counting on the unique nature of its business to appeal to investors.

Philippine property developer DM Wenceslao and Associates, which was expected to open books for its IPO of around Ps10.73bn ($227m) this week, has pulled the plug on the transaction until next year.

André Esteves resigned from his positions as chairman of the board and chief executive of BTG Pactual on Sunday following his arrest on November 25 as part of Brazilian authorities’ investigation into corruption at Petrobras.

Dr Alberto Torres García, head of economic research at Mexico's central bank, is to take over from of Alejandro Díaz de León as head of the country’s public credit as Díaz de León leaves to take run development bank, Bancomext.

Doosan Power Systems (DPS) and the Sydney branch of Industrial and Commercial Bank of China started attracting interest from bond investors on November 30, opening books for their respective dollar deals.

China Greenland Rundong Auto Group has become the latest auto dealer from the Mainland to increase the size of its borrowing thanks to strong demand.

Chinese authorities are expected to allow the renminbi to depreciate following the decision on the IMF Special Drawing Rights (SDR) basket, though there is a debate about how severe that fall will be. Either way, it is likely a hike in rates by the Federal Reserves (Fed) could hold more sway on the RMB's future than SDR inclusion.

The Province of British Columbia (BC) has moved one step closer to selling a Panda bond after it secured a quota of Rmb6bn ($973m) to issue renminbi-denominated notes in China’s interbank market.

The Dutch government has opened the selection process for banks to lead the IPO of ASR Nederland, the life and non-life insurance company nationalised in October 2008. The plan is to float a 30% to 50% stake in the company in the first half of 2016.

Erste Abwicklungsanstalt is lining up to issue its first public euro bond since October 2013, which is set to be priced before next week's European Central Bank meeting.

Kenya will issue its second infrastructure bond next week, said the governor of the Central Bank of Kenya, Patrick Njoroge.