Americas
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Life insurers and Yankee banks had the dollar market to themselves, this week, as US banks prepared to kick off first quarter earnings season. -
Mexico timed its return to the European bond market on Monday extremely well, said DCM bankers, with risk-hungry investors allowing the sovereign to notch a €9bn book on the way to a dual-tranche deal.
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The Republic of Panama is looking to deepen its local bond curve with its first Euroclearable domestic deal, with the small Central American country set to take an unusually prominent role in Latin American primary bond markets in the coming weeks.
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French construction company Vinci took advantage of a lull in supply and favourable financing conditions to make its long-awaited dollar market debut.
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Barclays’ corporate and investment bank has reached the endgame in its fight to boost returns following the departure of Tim Throsby, as group CEO Jes Staley takes control for the second time in three years.
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International investors bought around half of Telefónica del Perú’s sol bond on Wednesday, as an attractive spread over the sovereign curve helped the telecoms company attract impressive size in a rare Latin American global local currency deal.
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Consorcio Transmantaro, the Peruvian power transmission company, is preparing a $400m green bond, according to rating agencies, though Moody’s says it expects less than 95% of proceeds to be used for qualifying green uses.
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Canada Mortgage and Housing Corp has made an internal appointment for its new treasurer.
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JP Morgan has created a new unit within its global equity derivatives division focused on insurance structuring – an area that the US bank sees as a key component of the growth of its equities franchise.
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Toronto–Dominion Bank’s (TD) €1.75bn five year covered bond, which was issued on Wednesday, was priced 13bp tighter than where it might have launched in January when five other Canadian borrowers entered the market with similar deals.
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Saudi Aramco’s jumbo M&A deal has a stranglehold on emerging markets debt investors’ attention and is dominating their schedules.
