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Italy hit screens for a 15 year euro benchmark on Monday, in what will be the sovereign’s first syndication for a new issue since agreeing its 2019 budget with the European Commission at the end of last year. Elsewhere in the eurozone periphery, Greece is looking to return to the bond market with a euro syndication in the five year part of the curve, according to bankers.

On Friday, American data centre owner Digital Realty sold the first green corporate bond in euros of 2019, but investors did not have long to wait for the second one as Italian energy company Enel also chose to issue in the format.

South Korea’s third largest life insurer, Kyobo Life Insurance, has lined up three firms to lead its IPO, according to a source working on the deal.

Chinese property manager Country Garden Services Holdings has pocketed HK$1.96bn ($249.9m) from a top-up placement of new shares.

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