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London-listed Anglo Pacific Group has added Scotia Bank to its existed lending syndicate, giving it capacity to triple the size of its bank facility.

Comcast won the bidding war for Sky over the weekend, with the US cable company mobilising £28.79bn-equivalent of loan funding to buy the UK media firm.

In the first deal from a UK bank since last week’s Salzburg summit, Royal Bank of Scotland came to the market on Monday with a senior bond from its holding company — looking to complete its sixth such transaction this year.

ICBC Standard Bank on Monday said that it had hired two commodities derivatives veterans to take senior roles in its base metals business.

Trian Partners, the asset manager founded by US billionaire and activist investor Nelson Peltz, has raised £270m for a special purpose acquisition company seeking to take “a substantial minority stake” in a high quality but undervalued company.

Kate Birchall, the former head of portfolio optimisation and collateral at National Australia Bank, has been chosen by LCH to lead the Asia Pacific operations of its London-based clearing house LCH Limited.

The London Stock Exchange Group (LSE) and the National Stock Exchange of India (NSE) have signed a memorandum of understanding to work together to create a dual-listing route for Masala bonds in the hopes of giving a fillip to the asset class.

UK telecoms provider BT Group avoided competing with six new issues on Thursday and found itself with no competing supply for its latest corporate bond deal on Friday. While BT’s ambitions for the size of its deal this time were more modest than previous trades, the demand was still strong, allowing it to print tight to secondary levels.

Northern Ireland Electricity, the country’s electricity grid operator, overcame any fears investors may have had about the Irish border issue in the ongoing Brexit negotiations when it upsized its deal on a rare visit to the capital markets on Thursday.

Cryptocurrencies have not had a great year. Total market capitalisation of the sector is down 75% from the highs of January, falling roughly in line with what the bears predicted. But that hasn’t seemed to slow institutions’ attempts to get involved.

Glencore, the Swiss mining and commodities company, has returned to the equity-linked market with a $125m tap of its non-dilutive convertible bonds due in March 2025, placed overnight on Wednesday evening.

The highly anticipated IPO of Aston Martin has entered its final stages as bookrunners opened the books and a set a pricing range that values the carmaker at over £5bn at the top. Within a day, the deal was covered.