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Fresnillo plc, the Mexican mining company, will begin meeting fixed income investors on Wednesday as it becomes the latest Latin American company to seek new bonds to fund a repurchase of old ones.

Goldman Sachs has given new titles to leaders in its credit finance, investment grade capital markets and equity capital markets businesses.

Kingsoft Cloud Holdings has hit the market with a follow-on offering of new and existing American Depository Shares (ADS).

Japan could be Mexico's next debt raising destination on its quest to build a "sustainable yield curve," following last week's bond linked to the UN's Sustainable Development Goals, said Gabriel Yorio, the country's deputy finance minister.

Goldman Sachs has named new global M&A bosses, with the incumbents moving to become chairs of the business.

Julius Baer was forced to postpone a new transaction amid 'worsening market conditions' on Monday, after coming close to setting a new record for the lowest ever additional tier one (AT1) coupon in dollars from a European bank.

A proposed debut bond from a Brazilian oil company that ratings agencies said had “high operating risk” and a “small” and concentrated asset base proved to be one step too far for the rampant EM bond market that is showing signs of nearing its peak.

Latin American business services company Atento began investor calls on Friday ahead of a proposed senior secured benchmark bond as it looks to refinance a $500m 2022 maturity.

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The World Bank visited the Maple market on Thursday to print the largest ever seven year Canadian dollar bond from a non-domestic issuer, raising C$750m ($569.8m) with a new sustainable development bond (SDB).

Emerging market bond demand appeared near boiling point this week as a slew of borrowers priced new debt through their curves and even high yielding credits were able to stretch to longer maturities. While market participants acknowledged it surely cannot get any better than this and that conditions show little connection to economic reality, they are struggling to see what could sour sentiment in the near term. Mariam Meskin and Oliver West report.

Argentina’s recently restructured international bond curve looks further than ever from the 10% yield target that the finance minister had set. New currency controls aimed at halting the decline in international reserves have had a catastrophic impact on both corporate and sovereign bond markets, and are likely to spell major trouble in the long term, analysts say.