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On Tuesday night the loan market gathered in all its finery to hear the winners of the 13th Syndicated Loan, Leveraged Finance and Private Placement Awards at the Guildhall, in London. The results are below.

Countryside Properties has received enough demand from investors to complete its IPO. The UK house and flat developer is counting on strong interest from UK long-only funds to weather difficult market conditions.

Pharmaceuticals firm Shire completed the syndication of an $18bn acquisition loan on Friday and will use proceeds to buy rare disease specialist Baxalta.

An investor reappraisal of additional tier one paper left the asset class trading at unprecedented lows on Monday, forcing Deutsche Bank to reassure the market of its ability to pay its coupons.

After nearly three weeks of radio silence, Europe’s investment grade corporate bond market has re-opened, with four successful issues this week, But issuers must still tread warily, as investors' interest is capricious, writes Ross Lancaster.

Hypo Tirol overcame lingering concerns in the aftermath of the Heta Asset Resolution debacle to issue an oversubscribed and relatively well distributed five year Pfandbrief on Thursday.

The extraordinary sight of a German public sector borrower pulling a syndication mid-week led not only led to criticism of the deal’s execution but also reawakened fears over banks' diminishing ability to take down and warehouse sovereign and sub-sovereign bonds. Craig McGlashan reports.

Caixabank issued its largest Cédulas in five years on Monday. It was also the biggest since 2014 and enticed more investors than any Spanish deal in three years.

Kommunalbanken showed there is scope for action in the belly of the dollar curve with the first five year benchmark in the currency for three weeks, but longer dated deals still appear out of reach.

Home Depot brought some much needed relief to the dollar market this week with a $3bn print that demonstrated that investors are prepared to deploy cash for high quality names.

The UK higher education sector maintained its love affair with capital markets this week, as the University of Leeds announced a roadshow for its debut bond.

Barclays will offload a legacy derivatives portfolio to JP Morgan as part of the British bank's plans to run down its non-core assets.