Americas

Chinese technology companies are flocking back to the US for IPOs after months of poor market conditions and the regulatory crackdown on the sector brought deal flow to a near halt. There is more on the way too, as issuers look to wrap up deals before the summer slowdown. Jonathan Breen reports.

Panama sold $2bn of bonds across two tranches on Wednesday, including a $1.25bn 10 year local bond that was priced over 85bp wide of its global curve. Most observers thought it was an attractive pick-up for investors.

Mexican car parts maker Nemak sold $500m of sustainability-linked bonds on Wednesday in its first issue since it was spun off from conglomerate Grupo Alfa. Nemak’s deal was priced 25bp inside a recent SLB from its similarly rated peer Metalsa.

Dingdong (Cayman), a Chinese e-commerce company for fresh groceries, and its rival Missfresh are testing investor appetite at the same time for their US IPOs.

Frigorífico Concepción, the Paraguay beef exporter, is looking to sell new bonds to refinance its senior secured 2025s just six months after it last tapped the notes.

Analysts said that Argentina’s deal to postpone $2bn of debt owed to the Paris Club was a credit positive, though it was not enough to halt another recent fall in the sovereign’s bond prices as the medium-term likelihood of a default remains high.

Argentine dairy company Mastellone Hermanos will push ahead with a distressed debt exchange after holders of an additional $3m of its 2021 bonds agreed to participate in the swap since last week’s early-bird deadline. The extra participation means the minimum take-up threshold for the offer has been reached.

Canada’s federal pensions manager, Public Sector Pension Investments, made its debut on the international bond market on Tuesday — and will soon be back for more. It was joined in the market by International Finance Corporation’s first ever bond linked to the Secured Overnight Financing Rate (Sofr).

China’s Full Truck Alliance (FTA), billed as an Uber-style service for trucks, has raised $1.56bn from its New York IPO. A wave of global demand pushed final pricing to the top of the guidance, said a banker close to the deal.

Chinese online human resources service provider 51job has raised a $1.825bn term loan from two banks to support its take-private.

Financial services firm XP, which Moody’s describes as aiming to “disrupt the business model of incumbent banking institutions in Brazil”, is meeting fixed income investors ahead of a potential debut international bond issue 18 months after it priced an IPO on the Nasdaq stock exchange.

Bondholders of Mexican payroll lender AlphaCredit are facing very low recoveries, say credit analysts, after the company failed to pay a $15m coupon payment due on June 19 on its senior secured 2022s.