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The year 2015 has seen important progress in the field of green bond investment in Asia, with the emergence of two big new markets — China and India. For its Tokyo roundtable, GlobalCapital invited a panel of issuers, investors, analysts and bankers to discuss the trends in the sector and the potential for development as new markets open up for the asset class across the region.

Corporate and FIG green bonds had a breakthrough year in 2014 and there have been several deals already this year. But with banks facing a flood of new regulations and the cost of reporting putting some corporations off the idea of printing green bonds, the two sectors face challenges not endured by SSA issuers. There are, however, still plenty of reasons to be optimistic about the future of corporate and FIG green bonds. GlobalCapital brought together corporate and FIG funding officials, bankers and green bond experts London for a roundtable discussion on how 2015 has fared — and what 2016 will bring.

GlobalCapital's European SRI roundtable for 2015 brought together issuers, investors and bankers to discuss how to tackle the capital markets challenges of sustainable and responsible investment.

So far green bonds have dominated the still young ESG capital markets. But in the last 12 months a pair of issuers have brought bonds based on social themes in benchmark size. Tessa Wilkie reports on how we are about to see a lot more of them.

On Thursday, September 24, GlobalCapital held its 2015 Global Derivatives Dinner at Banking Hall in London and revealed the winners of its Global Derivatives Awards 2015.

Recent volatility surrounding China’s A-share market has prompted Huishang Bank to ditch its Shanghai listing in favour of an H-share placement.

China’s ENN Energy has made a tender offer to its bondholders to repurchase for cash any and all outstanding notes, as part of the company’s debt management efforts.

The UK Debt Management Office was this week able to print an increase of its 2068 linker at the tight end of guidance.

A pair of European banks have printed private medium term notes in yen after several years away from the currency.

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Mizuho has appointed a new head of debt syndicate for Asia Pacific, poaching him from rival Nomura.

Financial services boutique StormHarbour on Wednesday said it has hired for its Madrid office Yago Valderrama, Société Générale’s former head of cross-asset solutions in Spain and Portugal.