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Wind Tre, the Italian telecoms group, delivered Europe's largest ever high yield bond issue this week, a €7.3bn deal that has raised the bar for the market and led to expectations that more sponsors will follow suit amid heady investor demand.

Three European agencies and a Washington supranational tapped 10 year Australian dollar bonds this week, as the demand for long end Kangaroo paper remains healthy.

After a stream of successful repricings in the leveraged loan market this week, French call centre operator Webhelp is set to refinance its term loans for the second time this year and could shave a further 25bp off its financing costs, according to sources.

Reliance Nippon Life Asset Management was inundated with orders for its Rp15.4bn ($236.3m) IPO this week, with books covered 4.21 times on Wednesday, the first day of a three day bookbuild.

The European high yield bond pipeline this week brought €1bn of single-B rated offerings in euros and sterling from new issuers, giving hope to those working for a bigger borrower base for the market.

Investors were stumbling over each other on Wednesday to place orders for Reliance Nippon Life Asset Management’s potential Rp15.4bn ($236.3m) IPO, the first day of a three day bookbuild.

Reliance Nippon Life Asset Management has launched a three day bookbuild for its up to Rp15.4bn ($236.3m) IPO, after securing a third of the offer with a group of anchor investors.

Wind Tre, the Italian telecoms company, issued its €7.3bn senior secured bond deal on Tuesday, a day ahead of schedule, and priced all four tranches at the tight end of guidance.

NRW.Bank is set to return to the sterling market on Tuesday, coming on the heels of a tap from the Council of Europe Development Bank.

Nomura said it had hired Frédéric Giovansili, Citi's head of markets for France, Belgium and Luxembourg, as head of western European sales, the Japanese bank's third senior hire from Citi in short order.

Jianpu Technology has filed for a $200m listing of American Depositary Shares, tapping three bulge bracket banks as underwriters. Hong Kong-based iClick Interactive Asia Group, meanwhile, is eyeing $100m.

Kia Motors Corp found nothing but clear roads in the bond market on Thursday, after a moment of traffic briefly delayed its $900m dual-tranche transaction.