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Chinese property companies are pushing their fund-raising for 2018 to the bitter end – with sometimes surprising results. Cifi Holdings scored with a larger-than-expected $400m bond on Monday, while Redsun Properties Group sold a $200m tap.

Indian Oil Corp is in the market with a $1.3bn financing, in yet another sign the country’s famously stingy borrowers are allowing pricing to inch up.

Wuhan Financial Holdings Group Co made its dollar market debut on Monday, raising $142m from a three year club-style deal.

US CLO issuance has almost entirely tapered off in the final weeks of the year, but a select few deals are crawling through the pipeline even while spreads are near recorded highs for 2018.

With an eye to reducing prepayment speeds on Ginnie Mae mortgages, the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) announced new rules on Friday that spelled out how the agency will broaden its crack down on predatory refinancing practices.

SSA euro issuance outstripped dollars this year, thanks to strong conditions in the first half and the vagaries of the basis swap. But the end of eurozone quantitative easing and political strife made it a trickier place later in 2018 — and those elements are unlikely to disappear in 2019.

Public sector agencies from the Nordic region are adapting to S&P Global Ratings’ overhaul of its rating methodology. So far, only KommuneKredit has been downgraded under the new rating criteria, but others could suffer similar fates.

Public sector borrowers are confident going into the euro bond market next year, with reinvestments from maturing bonds held by the European Central Bank likely to cap any spread widening from the end of quantitative easing. But political threats — from populists polling well ahead of European Parliament elections in May, Brexit probably in March and the Italian government’s stand-off with the European Commission over its budget plans — are likely to bring volatility, meaning timing will perhaps be more important than in 2018. GlobalCapital brought together European SSAs, investors and investment bankers to discuss what 2019 holds for the euro market — as well as the SRI sector and new technology.

The Bank for International Settlements has publish a research paper exploring the risks that spring from the close linkage between banks and clearing houses (CCPs) through OTC derivatives.

Overall issuance volume in EMEA’s equity-linked market is finishing 2018 down 50% from 2017, with bankers saying it is the worst year in memory.

The Netherlands will look to issue around €4bn-€6bn with a maturity of at least 15 years in its debut green bond, which will be sold through a Dutch Direct Auction in the second quarter of 2019.

The European Central Bank fears that proposed changes allowing banks to use additional tier one debt to meet Pillar 2 capital requirements would weaken their resilience to stress and put smaller institutions at a disadvantage.