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Air Products and Chemicals priced a €300m 10 year bond on Tuesday - its fourth visit to the euro market, and in a familiar format.

Ford Credit Europe Bank, the US car maker’s European financing vehicle, found plenty of demand for a €650m three year floating rate note and a €650m seven year fixed rate bond on Tuesday.

Air Products and Chemicals, the US gases and chemicals producer, held an investor call today for a possible euro bond issue.

Telecommunication tower operator Solusi Tunas Pratama (STP) is looking to tap the bond market for the first time having mandated five banks for a series of investor meetings starting on February 4.

Philippine consumer food and beverage company Universal Robina Corp’s NZ$742m ($537.57m) loan has been allocated, with ten banks joining the syndication. The loan, which is for the company’s acquisition of New Zealand’s Griffin's Foods, received a good response thanks to the lack of top tier offshore deals out of the Phillipines.

The primary investment arm of the Qingdao municipal government – Qingdao City Construction Investment Group (QCCI) – is meeting investors starting on February 2 for what could be its first outing in the dollar bond market.

Altice on January 30 achieved a successful sale for its €4.8bn-equivalent bond package backing its takeover of Portugal Telecom.

French investment company Wendel sold a €500m 12 year bond on Friday, having increased the deal in response to strong demand and favourable pricing.

GTech, the Italian gambling equipment maker, completed an €800m term loan on Friday last week, the day before Standard & Poor’s and Moody’s downgraded it to junk.

Indonesian oil and gas company Pertamina, which is in the market for $1.8bn five year loan, has received $380m in commitments in general. Bankers on the deal said they expect to close soon with allocations likely to be out in the next couple of weeks.

The regulatory tide has turned, and banks are no longer trusted to assess their own capital needs. The Basel Committee’s latest proposals on bank disclosure, published on Wednesday, would add detailed information on internal modelling to existing bank reporting.

Syndication for Dutch grain trader Nidera’s $800m revolving credit facility will close on February 17, according to a banker on the deal.