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Equity capital markets investors are becoming increasingly focused on sustainable investments, particularly those linked to renewable energy. The strength of this demand could be tested this autumn, should Spanish renewable energy firm Zero-E choose to list.

RSA Insurance Group is looking at selling a new senior bond in sterling, as investors in the UK currency look forward to a bumper year for issuance from the insurance sector.

The UK Debt Management Office is seeking views from its primary dealer group and other interested parties for a tender offer for a conventional Gilt.

Deutsche Pfandbriefbank announced on Friday that it is planning to meet investors in the sterling market next week to gauge appetite for a possible senior preferred bond.

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UK corporate debt is at an all-time high as the risks posed by a traumatic departure from the EU in October peak. Default risk among UK industrials has deteriorated sharply in recent years while at the same time their EU counterparts have lowered their risk profile. Karoliina Liimatainen reports.

London football club Tottenham Hotspur FC has entered the US private placement market, looking for £350m to partly pay off bank loans generated from the construction of its new stadium.

Acadia Healthcare, which owns UK mental healthcare provider the Priory Group, needs the consent of lenders if it wants to go through with its plan to sell the company, a research company says. US-based Acadia could be forced to use the proceeds of the sale to deleverage.

The two to 10 year section of the gilt market inverted on Wednesday, strengthening portents that the UK is headed for a recession, though SSA bankers showed no concern about the moves.

Freyherr International Group, the Slovenian medical marijuana company, has priced its IPO on the London Stock Exchange.

A number of highly anticipated emerging market IPO issuers are understood to have shifted listing plans to next year instead of the last quarter of 2019.

BUUK Infrastructure, a UK utilities firm formerly called Brookfield Utilities, has sold US private placements, according to market participants.