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Indonesian automobile consumer financer Federal International Finance (FIF) signed a $225m loan in December. The syndicate for the loan, which was led by HSBC and Mizuho and came with a guarantee from the Japan Bank for International Co-operation, consisted entirely of Japanese lenders.

Gas Natural, the Spanish gas and electricity company, issued a €500m 10 year bond on Tuesday, attracting €4bn of orders and paying a minimal new issue premium.

Pirelli, the Italian tyre maker, has revved up the year's loan market business with a €1bn facility signed last week, that the company said was three times oversubscribed.

Shanghai Jin Jiang International Hotels has wrapped up syndication of a $250m three year term loan with a group of five banks.

Port services provider Pelabuhan Indonesia II’s (Pelindo II) has asked banks lending to a $1bn loan to accept looser covenants on the borrowing. The changes come as the company is eyeing a bond issue that would increase debt on its books and make it difficult for it to meet the current loan conditions.

Wei Jing Oh has joined Bank of Tokyo Mitsubishi UFJ (BTMU) as an assistant vice president in the loan origination department, a source told GlobalCapital Asia. Oh was previously in the south Asia debt structuring and syndication team at Mizuho.

Japan's three megabanks launched Indian Oil Corp’s (IOC) C$600m ($541m) loan into general syndication on January 6. As the deal requires banks to commit in Canadian dollars, the leads are focusing primarily on US and Canadian banks.

Cosmetics packaging company HCP Global's $360m dividend recapitalisation loan for sponsor TPG has been allocated among 13 banks.

The US market slowed down after the previous week’s blockbuster but a handful of smaller trades were sufficient to take December's haul to a record. Four corporate trades worth $2.8bn pushed issuance to $43bn, making it the busiest December ever.

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Wei Jing Oh, a senior officer in the debt structuring and syndication team for south Asia at Mizuho in Singapore, has left the bank.

Pricing for a S$1.3bn ($991m) loan to back the acquisition of Vietnamese state owned Saigon Beer Alcohol Beverage Corp (Sabeco) has come in low, said bankers. Singaporean company Fraser and Neave (F&N), which is borrowing the money, has split the fundraising equally between a term loan and a bridge.