Americas

Nexa Resources Perú, the mining company previously known as Compañía Minera Milpo, will buy back more than half of a dollar bond maturing in 2023 as it’s set to wrap a tender offer.

United Hampshire US Real Estate Investment Trust (Reit) has kicked off the roadshow for a $323.6m Singapore IPO on the back of chunky cornerstone investor orders, according to a source familiar with the matter.

CPPIB Capital is moving forward with its five year dollar benchmark which was mandated last Friday but postponed following the hostile market conditions at the start of the week. Bankers away from the deal expect it to go well, given the limited size.

Global market volatility triggered by fears surrounding Covid-19 outbreak, finally hit Latin America bonds on Monday just as bankers said they are preparing another heavy wave of issuance.

CPPIB Capital, which mandated banks for a five year benchmark on Friday, has postponed the deal in the face of a hostile market rocked by volatility engendered by the Covid-19 coronavirus outbreak.

Brazilian airline Gol said on Friday that it would be redeeming in March a bond it had tried — and mostly failed — to repurchase a year ago.

Twelve of the largest global investment banks reduced their headcounts in equities by 10% last year, leading to one of the “steepest declines in years” in the number of investment bank employees, according to analytics firm CRISIL Coalition.

The IMF’s call for a “definitive debt operation yielding a meaningful contribution from private creditors” in Argentina only triggered a slight fall in sovereign bond prices as investors said there was little new in the statement. But fears are rising that the country is facing a lengthy restructuring process.

Brazilian pulp and paper company Suzano is working on structuring a bond that would reflect its commitment to sustainability. But its chief financial officer told GlobalCapital that the green bond market was unable to maximise the impact capital markets could have on sustainability.

Intense demand in the Swiss franc bond market for any asset with a positive yield — or even anything yielding more than the penal negative rates on cash — gave a varied group of issuers this week execution that pushed the boundaries — bigger, faster and tighter.

Chilean power generator Colbún will begin investor meetings on February 21 with the publication of full year financial reports set to trigger a second wave of new Latin American issuance for the year.

JP Morgan grabbed the record for the lowest yielding preferred security issue this week, as investors continued to pour cash into the asset class.