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Concerns over Sri Lanka's ability to manage its debt continue to mount, with S&P Global Ratings downgrading the country further.

Neel Laungani has rejoined Credit Suisse in a senior position in the Asia Pacific investment banking and capital markets (IBCM) team.

HSBC's investment banking coverage team in Hong Kong will begin 2021 with some personnel changes.

Chinese healthcare technology company Yidu Tech is set to begin drumming up demand for its Hong Kong IPO after winning listing approval from the city’s bourse.

What size bonuses can investment bankers expect in the next few months? On the one hand, they have made oodles of dough for their firms. On the other, their employers face pressure not to be too generous while much of the rest of society is struggling, with regulators wanting them to focus capital resources on lending to the real economy.

Chinese furniture maker Huisen Household International Group has kicked off its IPO. It has set its sights on raising up to HK$1.4bn ($180m).

Banco de la República (BanRep), the central bank of Colombia, has elected a former board member as its next governor, in a move unlikely to signal any major changes in the bank’s policy.

Jose Andrés Olivares Canchari, director general of Peru’s public treasury, is to leave his role this week for personal reasons, GlobalCapital understands.

European gas pipeline companies such as Snam and National Grid have succeeded in presenting themselves as environmentally progressive partly by not reporting the largest part of their carbon dioxide emissions, according to a report published this week. Meanwhile, different parts of the energy industry are competing for political support and capital, as Europe strives to cut its greenhouse gas emissions 55% by 2030.

The Gulf region has fared well this year, despite the double impact of the coronavirus pandemic and the drop in oil prices, according to Dr Jarmo Kotilaine, chief planning and monitoring officer at Bahrain’s Tamkeen and author of Trials of Resilience: How Covid-19 is driving economic change in the Arab Gulf. Kotilaine believes an expansion of capital markets activity in the region will be a key driver of economic growth in 2021.

The SSA market faced unprecedented challenges in 2020. Funding requirements were inflated by unexpected needs from the pandemic, and the market was busier than ever thanks, in no small part, to the EU’s entrance as one of the sector’s biggest borrowers. But with the exception of a difficult period in March, SSA issuers made it through the year with scarcely a hiccup in their programmes. It’s an encouraging sign, but new challenges await next year. Some leading lights in the SSA community discuss the year they’ve had and the changes it has brought for them, as well as for capital markets more broadly.

The EU Summit on Thursday swiftly produced agreement on the bloc’s multi-annual financial framework, including the €750bn coronavirus recovery fund. Though the news is good, particularly for the European periphery, the move in spreads has been muted.