Americas

Brazilian financial name BTG Pactual is set to price a tap of its 4.5% senior unsecured January 2025s on Thursday, with bankers expecting the bank’s strong recent performance to outweigh a market starting to show signs of new issue fatigue after a busy June.

Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce achieved a roaring success with its $2bn five year 144A deal priced on Wednesday, the first from a Canadian bank in over a year. CIBC managed to achieve a size and spread that would not have been possible in euros and showed the importance of paying attention to key currency markets outside Europe.

UBS has appointed global heads of equity capital markets for the first time in almost two years as the Swiss bank eyes opportunities in a booming IPO market.

Chinese ride-hailing giant Didi has raised $4.4bn from its New York Stock Exchange IPO, increasing the size of the float after investors pumped more than $40bn of orders into the book.

An exciting rebound in the flow of China-into-US listings took an unexpected hit last week when online grocery start-up, Missfresh, plummeted on the first day of trading. While this is worrying, investors are still positive around these IPOs.

Brazil sold $2.25bn of dollar bonds across two tranches on Tuesday, taking advantage of a strong primary market window that is leaving some bond buyers underwhelmed with pricing.

Chinese online grocer Dingdong (Cayman) has cut its US listing size to $94.4m, just over one-quarter of its initial target, after rival Missfresh plummeted in its Nasdaq debut last week.

Suzano, the Brazilian pulp and paper producer that last year became the second company in the world to sell a sustainability-linked bond (SLB), returned to capital markets on Monday with a $1bn long 10 year deal that has a coupon linked to different key performance indicators from its first deal.

Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce revealed the mandate on Monday for the first Canadian dollar covered bond of the year and the first to be issued in 144A format in over 12 months. Prospects for further issuance in the currency are promising.

Chinese online grocer Missfresh saw its share price sink on its trading debut, after it priced its Nasdaq IPO at the bottom of the marketed range.

Peruvian power generation company Orazul has launched a tender offer for a portion of its 2027 bonds and will use proceeds from last year’s sale of its transmission businesses to fund the liability management. Fitch had anticipated the prepayment of the notes back in August 2020, when it placed Orazul’s credit rating on positive watch.

Chinese ride-hailing firm Didi Chuxing has launched its New York Stock Exchange IPO, aiming to raise $4.03bn from the largest China-into-US listing since Alibaba Group Holding’s jumbo $25bn deal in 2014.