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Arcadis, a Dutch design and consultancy firm, clinched a €300m revolving credit facility from a group of five banks before the Christmas holiday.

Goodyear Dunlop Tires, the US tyre maker, issued €250m of eight year senior notes on Wednesday. The notes are rated Ba1/BB, with a coupon of 3.750% and non-call protection of three years.

Rabobank plans to undergo a huge revamp of its strategy and structure in order to comply with heavier capital requirements.

The International Finance Corporation and Rabobank sold a pair of medium term notes denominated in Chilean pesos this week. With some analysts predicting a rise in the price of copper, this could be a sign investors are looking to buy into a correlated currency.

Oil services company Fugro on Thursday cut the size of its credit facilities from €775m to €500m, with one bank dropping from out of the lending group.

Europe's high yield market has made a remarkable comeback in the past fortnight, crowned this week when Ball Corp, the US can maker, priced a €2bn-equivalent bond, highlighting the bullishness of euro markets inflated by QE, writes Victor Jimenez.

Aegon Bank issued its first covered bond on Tuesday, a €750m five year conditional pass through (CPT).

A tiring but positive week for syndicate bankers ended in a flurry of deals on Friday, as four issuers bathed in the ebullient tone of the corporate bond market.

Victory City Co has approached the syndicated loan market for a HK$2.388bn ($308m) fundraising that has seven bookrunners at the helm.

Anheuser-Busch InBev, the Belgian-Brazilian brewer, mandated a group of 21 banks to provide its $75bn loan facility, but there was no coordinator as AB InBev took an active role in arranging the transaction.

Issuers, investors and regulators are paying attention to senior unsecured bank debt, and the tier two bonds that stand below them in the capital structure, like never before. Nick Jacob reports.

Life is not getting easier for the treasury teams of financial institutions and the investors that buy their debt. Much of 2015 has been dominated by volatility, with the euro market shut for long periods of time.