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Emerging market borrowers will front-load their funding tasks in 2018, according to several EM bankers who are predicting a busy month.

For CEEMEA bonds, 2017 was a record breaking year and one which pushed the boundaries of product, tenor, and issuer. The $200bn of bonds raised in CEEMEA, and the $140bn raised in Latin America are the highest annual volumes on record. Investors’ seemingly insatiable appetite for EM debt fuelled massive inflows into the asset class and kept the many idiosyncratic risk events – from Qatar’s regional isolation to deteriorating relations between Turkey and the US– contained. Picking out the deals of the year for 2017 was not easy for GlobalCapital’s editorial team, but after much deliberation the below were chosen.

BNP Paribas opened the new year’s unsecured market on Tuesday with a seven year senior non-preferred deal in dollars, undeterred by a less attractive cross currency basis swap.

Exchange-traded fund provider ALPS has joined CBOE Global Markets as a new issuer, bringing a new technology-focused ETF to the table last Friday.

Is Financal Kiralama (Is Leasing), Isbank’s leasing arm, is expected to sign a $75m loan which it has mandated Bank ABC to arrange.

Italian banks are expected to begin issuing non-preferred senior bonds for the first time, after the country’s parliament approved a package of reforms as part of its latest budget law.

Syndicate managers in the corporate bond market are back at their desks and ready to get the year off to a fast start, with few thinking the start to 2018 will be any different to January of last year.

The China Securities Regulatory Commission (CSRC) is going ahead with a pilot programme to fully float Hong Kong-listed shares, although the plan will be limited to three companies in the initial stage.

Chinese regional lender Bank of Gansu Co has covered the books for its Hong Kong IPO, which could raise HK$6.1bn ($783.9m) at the top of guidance, according to a banker on the deal.

A $350m-equivalent yen denominated borrowing for Indian power financier National Thermal Power Corp (NTPC) has entered primary syndication, testing the market’s appetite for a 10 year maturity.

Agence France Trésor is about to finish deciding the scope of eligible green projects that could be funded by its green OAT issuance in 2018, and will announce this to the market by mid-January.

Chinese logistics services provider SF Holding Co and upstream oil and gas firm Geo-Jade Petroleum Corp are planning to sell dollar bonds this year.