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  • Ascential, the UK media and events company, scaled back lenders after its £450m-equivalent bank line refinancing was oversubscribed.
  • Severn Trent, one of the UK’s three listed water companies, is looking to sell US private placements via its holding company, according to market sources. This is the first PP transaction from a UK water company since regulator Ofwat set out a new price review for the sector in December.
  • Loans bankers are trying to work out how much the Covid-19 coronavirus will affect their business, as the illness shuts down parts of Italy amid five reported deaths.
  • HSBC’s corporate finance staff have survived its restructuring largely unscathed, but the more ambitious among them will see the bank’s plans as a missed opportunity, writes David Rothnie. And with no answer yet on the identity of the next full-time CEO, the uncertainty is not over.
  • UK water utility companies have begun to test public and private debt markets for the first time since regulator Ofwat’s price review, and the deadline to appeal it, passed. The regulator’s decision will have large ramifications for the companies’ profiles in capital markets, writes Silas Brown.
  • Drinks group C&C to sell US PPs as Irish firms return — Almarai feasts on $100m for MENA expansion — Lufthansa flies by Schuldschein market for short dated debt — Archer plots loan A&E — Greencoat UK draws debt for wind farm buy