- Gross issuance by UK residents was £46.0bn in October 2017, £5.3bn higher than September and £6.3bn higher than the previous six months average.
- Net issuance by UK residents was £4.5bn in October, £2.4bn lower than September and £2.1bn lower than the previous six months average.
- PNFC gross bond issuance was £2.1bn in October, £5.5bn lower than in September and £2.8bn lower than the previous six months average.

Table A: Gross capital issuance by UK-residents (all currencies)
Sterling billions
Not seasonally adjusted
Gross issues by instrument and sector
MFI | OFC | PNFC | Total | |||||||||||
Shares | Bonds | CP | Of which: Sterling (£) |
Shares | Bonds | CP | Of which: Sterling (£) |
Shares | Bonds | CP | Of which: Sterling (£) |
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B53L | Z935 | B49M | B69I | B55L | Z937 | B53M | B72I | B57L | Z939 | B55M | B73I | B22K | ||
2017 Jul | - | 10.5 | 4.6 | 4.8 | 1.0 | 9.1 | 4.6 | 10.3 | 1.7 | 6.8 | 2.6 | 5.4 | 41.9 | |
Aug | - | 12.4 | 6.3 | 3.1 | 0.2 | 1.6 | 5.6 | 4.3 | 0.3 | 3.9 | 2.4 | 1.1 | 33.3 | |
Sep | - | 11.0 | 7.7 | 4.6 | 0.2 | 5.6 | 6.1 | 6.8 | 0.2 | 7.6 | 2.1 | 3.1 | 40.7 | |
Oct | - | 10.9 | 7.9 | 6.2 | 0.8 | 11.2 | 6.2 | 11.6 | 1.2 | 2.1 | 4.5 | 2.2 | 46.0 |
Net capital issuance:

Table B: Net capital issuance by UK-residents (all currencies)
Sterling billions
Not seasonally adjusted
Net issues by instrument and sector
MFI | OFC | PNFC | Total | |||||||||||
Shares | Bonds | CP | Of which: Sterling (£) |
Shares | Bonds | CP | Of which: Sterling (£) |
Shares | Bonds | CP | Of which: Sterling (£) |
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B35L | Z93P | B36L | B79I | B39L | Z93R | B42L | B64M | B29L | Z5ZC | Z5ZD | B83I | B24K | ||
2017 Jul | - | -0.8 | -1.1 | -1.3 | 0.9 | 3.7 | 0.1 | 4.9 | 1.0 | 2.2 | -0.1 | 0.9 | 6.4 | |
Aug | - | 5.3 | 1.0 | 1.5 | -0.3 | -3.4 | 1.0 | -2.8 | -0.3 | 1.2 | -0.3 | -1.0 | 4.4 | |
Sep | - | 1.4 | 2.0 | 0.8 | -0.4 | 2.9 | -0.9 | 0.6 | -1.6 | 3.5 | -0.0 | 0.2 | 6.9 | |
Oct | - | -2.1 | 3.0 | 0.9 | 0.3 | 7.3 | 0.8 | 5.0 | -0.5 | -4.7 | -0.2 | -2.4 | 4.5 |
Next release date: 20 December 2017
Further data are available in Table E3.1 of our latest Bankstats tables.