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  • The German Federal Government intends to raise €44bn in the capital markets in the first quarter of 2016, just over 28% of its total €154bn requirement.
  • With the market 81.4% sure that the Fed is going to raise rates today, according to the Fed Fund futures, the focus will be not be so much on the numbers, but the language used. One thing already seems clear, however: euro issuance stands to benefit hugely from a rate rise.
  • After a subdued year, Korean borrowers are gearing up for a busy 2016 buoyed by a credit rating boost from Standard & Poor’s, which made the country fully double A for the first time in its history. But will issuers be able to capture the lower yields they crave in the face of mounting global macro-economic pressures? Narae Kim finds out.
  • Markets divisions at investment banks have ruled the roost for years now, but their world is being turned upside down. Soon, nothing will be what it seems anymore.
  • The South Korean government became the first sovereign credit to price a Panda bond on December 15. The country raised Rmb3bn ($467m) from the three year, which saw at least one offshore investor participating, sources close to the deal told GlobalCapital Asia’s sister publication, GlobalRMB.
  • CEE
    With SSA investors increasingly muscling in on CEE bonds, a small number of banks have transferred execution for these sovereigns to their SSA syndicates. But a GlobalCapital poll showed that most banks have not yet done so and may not for some time, despite their spreads, already converging with the SSA market, having been shoved closer still by European quantitative easing.