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OneConnect Financial Technology, a unit of Chinese conglomerate Ping An Group, hit the road on Tuesday to meet investors for its New York Stock Exchange IPO.

Ellaktor is looking to tempt international investors with a carefully designed green bond that excludes a shaky construction business. The Greek company is looking to replace most of its long-term capital structure, currently heavy on local bank loans.

Italgas, the Italian gas distributor, issued a €500m 12 year bond on Monday, although syndicate bankers said they expected deal flow to diminish to a trickle over the week.

Brait, the troubled South African investment company, managed to issue a £150m five year convertible bond on Wednesday, an essential piece of its restructuring plan, which includes a new strategy, a recapitalisation, including a rights issue, to repay debt and the sale of two UK assets.

A number of untested European companies have made their entrance to the international high yield bond market in the past two weeks as central banks fuel conditions that pamper repeat and new issuers alike, while driving investors into ever riskier assets in a hunt for yield. Karoliina Liimatainen reports.

Moody’s has warned France’s LVMH that its $16.2bn debt-fuelled acquisition of Tiffany & Co will put its debt metrics near capacity for its A1 rating, as the acquisitive firm lines up $17bn of financing to buy the US jeweller.

Moody’s has warned France’s LVMH that its $16.2bn debt fuelled acquisition of Tiffany & Co. will put its debt metrics near capacity for its A1 rating, as the acquisitive firm lines up $17bn of financing to buy the US jeweller.

Aircraft leasing and aviation services company Avia Solutions Group became the latest debutant in the European high yield bond market on Tuesday. Central bank monetary policy has eased the path for a number of debuts in the last couple of weeks.

China deepened its dollar debt curve on Tuesday with a $6bn jumbo bond. With its biggest dollar deal yet, the sovereign has set a new benchmark for issuers from the country.

Investors showered a debut dollar deal from Uzpromstroybank with orders on Monday, with the order book for the $300m bond peaking at $1.2bn. But despite the success for the privatisation candidate, government officials are hoping that future Uzbek bond issuance will favour local currencies.

Ant Financial, an affiliate of Chinese e-commerce giant Alibaba Group Holding, has launched a $3.5bn three year loan into syndication, after closing an amendment and extension of an old borrowing.

German family-owned tissue and toilet paper manufacturer Wepa is marketing €550m of senior secured notes with an intention to extend maturities and slash interest expenses. It is following a number of other double-B issuers in to the market.