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Capital Issuance - September 2018

Capital issuance statistics consist of UK-based primary market issuance of bonds, commercial paper and equity, representing finance raised in the UK.

Published on 18 October 2018

Overview

Gross issuance by UK residents was £39.6bn in September, £15.1bn higher than in August and £0.8bn higher than the previous six month average.
Bonds accounted for £26.9bn of issuance in September, compared to £11.2bn in August.
MFI bond issuance was £13.7bn in September compared to £8.4bn in August and OFC bond issuance was £8.4bn compared to £2.5bn in August.

Gross capital issuance

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 (£)
	B53L	Z935	B49M	B3EF	B55L	Z937	B53M	B3EG	B57L	Z939	B55M	B3EH	B22K
2018 Jun	-	11.0	5.5	2.2	0.2	10.4	2.8	7.1	1.1	3.8	3.4	4.7	38.8
Jul	-	9.8	7.6	5.1	1.2	5.1	4.2	5.4	1.5	3.2	3.5	2.8	36.0
Aug	-	8.4	5.5	1.2	0.0	2.5	3.9	2.2	0.6	0.3	3.2	0.7	24.4
Sep	-	13.7	6.6	5.6	0.1	8.4	2.9	7.8	0.2	4.9	2.9	2.1	39.6

Chart 1: Gross capital issuance by UK-residents (all currencies)

Not seasonally adjusted

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 (£)
	B35L	Z93P	B36L	B3EL	B39L	Z93R	B42L	B3EM	B29L	Z5ZC	Z5ZD	B3EN	B24K
2018 Jun	-	5.1	-1.7	-0.1	-0.7	7.9	0.1	4.4	0.2	0.3	-1.0	3.2	10.9
Jul	-	2.5	1.8	0.3	0.2	1.8	1.5	0.5	0.4	0.5	0.2	0.9	8.9
Aug	-	2.5	-1.6	-1.7	-0.8	0.1	0.7	-1.0	-0.9	-0.9	-0.4	-1.2	-1.3
Sep	-	8.5	-2.0	0.2	-0.2	7.0	-1.8	2.2	-1.4	2.8	-1.5	-0.6	11.5

Chart 2: Net capital issuance by UK-residents (all currencies)

Not seasonally adjusted

Capital issuance by UK-residents (all currencies)

Next release date: 20 November 2018

Further data are available in Table E3.1 of our latest Bankstats tables.

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