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The UK Debt Management Office has announced the banks that will run the orderbooks for its first syndication of the new funding year.

How risky is it to lend money to a coal-fired power plant or an oil company? OK for another five years, perhaps — but how much longer can they carry on in the face of climate change? So far, banks have largely ducked questions like these. But from next year, more and more of them will be giving some kind of answer in their annual reports.

T-Mobile US has lined up $38bn of fully committed loans to finance its $26bn purchase of US telecommunications company Sprint.

German car company Daimler raced from one side of the Atlantic to the other this week to raise €6.7 equivalent from 10 tranches of bonds with tenors from two to 10 years.

Some investors are betting on UK bank debt to outperform the rest of the FIG market this year, despite the risks around the country’s departure from the European Union.

A 22 year old Canadian First Nations activist has flown 5,000 miles to berate Barclays for financing an oil pipeline through Alberta's tar sands. Investors in Barclays’ green bonds should be right alongside her. Those serious about climate change must look at issuers’ entire sustainability profiles, not simply green bond use of proceeds reports.

DTE Electric Co has become the newest member in the slowly growing club of investment grade US electric utility companies that have issued bonds explicitly marketed or certified as “green”.

UK financial institutions have issued record volumes of debt so far in 2018, and there is likely to be plenty more to come, as issuers look ahead to the risks posed by the UK's exit from the European Union.

Elliott International, the US hedge fund, sold a block of shares in Charter Court Financial Services, the UK challenger bank, after Market close on Monday.

T-Mobile US has lined up $38bn of fully committed loans to finance its $26bn purchase of US telecommunications company Sprint.

Sweeping US tax code reforms could have a big impact on banks with intermediate holding companies in the US, perhaps forcing them to fund from the IHCs directly, rather than from their parent companies.

A flattening and rising US Treasury yield curve may be sparking concerns of a slowdown for the US economy but it is having the opposite effect on the short end of the dollar market for public sector borrowers, writes Craig McGlashan.