Americas

Argentine oil and gas company Compañía General de Combustibles (CGC) is looking to tackle a looming bond maturity with an exchange offer, following the example of YPF and Telecom Argentina.

Latin American multilateral lender Corporación Andina de Fomento (CAF) could tap Swiss franc bond markets this week after mandating for a green bond.

Empresa de los Ferrocarriles del Estado (EFE), the only operator of long distance passenger railways in Chile, is looking to debut in international bond markets with a 10 or 30 year bond of up to $500m.

Chinese electric vehicle manufacturer XPeng is aiming to raise up to $100m from a listing on the New York Stock Exchange.

Ke Holdings has kicked off bookbuilding for a $2bn US listing. But it has come as one of its largest shareholders, internet giant Tencent Holdings, was blindsided by the US with sanctions.

Freeline, the UK gene therapeutics company, has priced its IPO on the Nasdaq exchange at the top of the pricing range, with investors willing to pay a big premium for the stock. The company is the latest deal in a global biotech issuance spree that has passed $60bn.

In this round-up, China and the US will examine the progress made from the phase one trade deal, the Chinese foreign minister says a ‘new Cold War’ is not what Beijing wants, and a pair of executive orders by president Donald Trump will ban US transactions involving WeChat and TikTok’s parent companies.

The unprecedented central role real money investors played in debt talks with Argentina and Ecuador could change the nature of sovereign restructuring, experts said, after the two countries this week reached agreements with creditors over billions of dollars of bonds. Oliver West and Ross Lancaster report.

The first ever international bond issued by government-owned lender Banco Nacional de Panamá (Banconal) performed well on the break this week as investors said the deal offered a healthy pick-up to the sovereign curve.

Subordinated debt transactions in dollars from a trio of European banks left no doubts about the strength of the Yankee market this week. Bookrunners are encouraging issuers to execute trades in the asset class quickly, as they are unlikely to encounter better conditions before the end of this year, writes David Freitas.

Equity capital markets bankers are hoping that global markets maintain the extraordinary bullishness of the last few weeks in what should prove a busy final quarter of the year for issuance. But an unholy trinity of risks are causing concern, particularly for IPOs.

Carnival Cruises has launched a partial buy-back of the $2bn three year 5.75% convertible bond it issued in April to provide itself with more liquidity during the Covid-19 global pandemic.