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Brazilian oil and gas producer Petrobras will continue to tidy up its debt profile with the buy-back of two bonds due in 2020, it said on Wednesday.

Thunder Bridge Acquisition has filed for a $200m Nasdaq IPO, set to be the first special purpose acquisition company (Spac) focused on China’s financial technology sector.

Huya, a live streaming platform backed by YY and Tencent, has started bookbuilding for its up to $180m IPO on the New York Stock Exchange.

Engineering and construction company Andrade Gutierrez Engenharia, one of the largest contractors in Latin America, failed to repay a senior unsecured bond that matured on April 30.

High yield notes sold by co-working space company WeWork dropped in four straight days of secondary trading after they were sold last Wednesday, less than a week after buyers piled into the offering in an apparent vote of confidence for cash burning companies.

DTE Electric Co has become the newest member in the slowly growing club of investment grade US electric utility companies that have issued bonds explicitly marketed or certified as “green”.

Canadian banks will be able to issue debt to meet their total loss-absorbing capacity (TLAC) requirements from September, with issuers focused on the costs of what they expect will be an otherwise straightforward process of rolling over their maturing debt.

The investment grade corporate bond market in the US finished April on a high, with more than $8bn of issuance on Monday. Issuers wanted to get the deals done before the US Federal Reserve met on Tuesday and it was a European issuers that led the way.

Camposol has launched a tender offer for its 10.5% 2021s for the second time this year, as the Peruvian agricultural company looks to revive a new bond sale.

Chilean state-owned copper mining company Codelco raised $600m of 30 year money in Taiwan on Monday in the first Formosa trade from a Chilean corporate.

Fintech firm Paysafe was out in the leveraged loan market this week with a chunky $800m extension of the loan deal it sold for its own acquisition in November.

Miami International Securities Exchange (MIAX Options) has started publishing a new equity volatility index, based on options on the famous SPDR exchange-traded fund referencing the blue chip S&P 500.