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Spain halved its three year borrowing costs and cut more than a third from its five year yield at auction on Thursday.

The UK loan market is experiencing a run of property firms looking to extend financing, with two companies adding to last week’s British Land deal.

Euromoney’s fifth High Yield Bond Conference on Wednesday provided high yield market participants with a rare head-on debate between a private equity executive and a high yield investor. There was a meeting of minds, but few concessions.

When it comes to how banks finance their activities, there is little doubt we are in a new era. If anyone did question that the climate has changed, then a little known Austrian institution may have caused them to think again this week.

The European Securities and Markets Authority has signed a memorandum of understanding with the Reserve Bank of Australia which will allow the RBA access to derivatives data held in European trade repositories as required under the European Market Infrastructure Regulation.

Ares Management and GE Capital have deployed their senior secured debt fund to back CVC’s acquisition of Wireless Logic, the UK communications provider.

The extremes of last quarter and the start of this year have subsided, and most measures of volatility and of the cost of options protection have returned to normal ranges.

Euromoney’s fifth High Yield Bond Conference on Wednesday provided high yield market participants with a rare head-on debate between a private equity executive and a high yield investor.

Nordea opened books on its second ever additional tier one (AT1) deal on Thursday morning, a multi-tranche deal denominated in dollars, Norwegian kroner and Swedish kronor.

Jaguar Land Rover, the UK premium car maker, has dipped for the second time in two weeks into a high yield market awash with demand, leading to lower funding costs.

Campofrio Food Group, the Spanish processed meat producer, priced its €500m bond a day early on Tuesday at 3.375%, in an eager high yield market.

Books for Thai company Platinum Group’s Bt5.25bn ($162.22m) IPO are fully covered across the range provided during bookbuilding, with investors showing no sensitivity to pricing despite a likely wait for any boost in earnings.