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Yorkshire Building Society issued the most popular euro covered bond of any UK bank ever on Tuesday. Scant UK supply, a popular choice of tenor and a rare double digit premium over mid-swaps, amid negative yields, were key in driving demand.

The arrangers of Reliance Industries’ debut Schuldschein have sent investors a statement saying that though the oversubscribed order books closed on Monday, they have extended the timetable for settlement to allow some investors “additional time to firm up their orders”.

Andrew Cross, deputy treasurer of the International Finance Corp, is set to join the Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank, GlobalCapital understands.

Tottenham Hotspur, the north London football club, is considering selling US private placements to partly pay off bank loans generated by the construction of its new stadium, several market participants have said. Unlike their US equivalents in the NBA and NFL, professional clubs from the UK are a rarity in the market, as the threat of relegation makes them too perilous an investment to some investors. Silas Brown reports.

Banks working on the IPO of Arabian Centres Company (ACC), possibly the largest Saudi Arabian flotation since 2014, have set a price range on the deal.

Lloyds Bank’s €1.5bn five year has achieved the highest score of any covered bond issued this year in BondMarker and UBS has, on average, worked on the highest quality deals this year.

The Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank has hired a new treasurer to replace Søren Elbech, who left at the start of the year.

LBBW did not have to pay a premium to launch a tier two in 10 year bullet format on Monday. A banker on the deal said that other issuers could follow suit, eschewing call options to take advantage of a renewed thirst for duration among investors.

A substantial and growing proportion of asset managers are asking big oil companies to realign their businesses with the Paris Agreement by moving away from fossil fuels, a survey released on Monday has found. But only a few have set deadlines or thought about what to do if the oil companies fail to comply.

China’s Ascentage Pharma Group International has refiled a prospectus for its second attempt to list on the Hong Kong Stock Exchange (HKEX).

Royal Bank of Canada has wrought havoc with the traditional pecking order for Canadian financial institutions in the credit markets, beating a better-rated peer for spread amid a string of recent senior issuance out of the country in euros. Market participants took the stunning developments this week as clear proof for a long-standing belief: green funding is simply cheaper. Tyler Davies reports.

The European high yield market is experiencing a post-Easter resurrection, with six new issues announced after the London market returned to work on Tuesday. While some of these trades were the lower-rated acquisition bonds investors having been crying out for, the bond market is still largely stuck with deals too long, too tight, too risky or too large for first lien loans.