UK Sovereign

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The University of Northampton became the first university to make use of the UK's Infrastructure Guarantee scheme when it issued a £231.5m 40 year bond guaranteed by the government on Wednesday.

Hapag-Lloyd, the German container shipping company, jumped into the high yield bond market on Thursday for a drive-by sale of a €250m bond, to refinance a deal maturing next year.

Belden, the US cable maker, has tapped its 2023 bond for €200m, triggering a one notch downgrade by Moody's to Ba2 — but investors shrugged off the change.

Martin Taylor, an external member of the Bank of England’s Financial Policy Committee, on Wednesday night delivered a broadside attacking the additional tier one market as it exists today, in a speech to the Oliver Wyman Institute.

The International Finance Facility for Immunisation (IFFIm) will conduct a final two day roadshow ahead of its first ever sukuk transaction — a ground-breaking Islamic deal that will fund vaccine and immunisation procurement.

Big Yellow Group, the UK provider of self-storage space, on Wednesday successfully completed the placing of over 14m new ordinary shares at Tuesday's closing share price of £5.475.

AstraZeneca, the Anglo-Swedish pharmaceutical company, priced a €750m seven year bond on Wednesday. It was four times oversubscribed and priced somewhere near the middle of the broad range suggested by the bonds of its peers.

Bonds of UK pub companies fell on Wednesday after the House of Commons passed a surprise amendment to a bill, which if it becomes law will mean pub tenants can no longer be obliged to buy beer from their owners.

Informa, the UK business-to-business publishing and events group, launched a cash box placing on Tuesday morning, hoping to raise about £275m to fully fund an acquisition of Hanley Wood Exhibitions, a US events business, which was announced simultaneously. Informa got the deal done, but only raised £207m after some top shareholders said they preferred a smaller deal.

Deutsche Bank and Barclays on Tuesday evening launched a block trade of a 10.09% stake worth £83m in Crest Nicholson, the UK housebuilder.

A fire in its largest factory in Spain has led meat processor Campofrio to abandon plans to issue a bond to refinance senior unsecured notes maturing in 2016.