Americas

Conglomerate Alicorp sold the second global nuevo sol bond to emerge from Peru in a week on Wednesday, copying the execution pattern that worked well for Telefónica del Perú last week and pricing inside its lower-rated compatriot.

Standard Chartered is paying $1.1bn in penalties to US and UK authorities in relation to breaching rules relating to sanctions and financial crime. This exceeds the $900m provision the bank announced in February for sanctions fines.

A varied menu of at least three Latin American borrowers could try to issue bonds on Wednesday, as the region’s issuance continues to catch up with last year’s numbers.

The US Securities and Exchange Commission should take the opportunity of errant tweeting from Tesla boss Elon Musk to figure out how it transitions to a more modern way of regulating market communication.

USJ Açucar e Alcool, the Brazilian sugar and ethanol company, is giving bondholders an extra two weeks to receive the early bird price in a debt exchange that Fitch says is likely needed to avoid default.

In this round up, US president Donald Trump claims DC trade talks solved some of toughest problems, FX reserves rise again, and Caixin PMI brings confidence in China’s economic recovery.

Brazilian steel producer Companhia Siderúrgica Nacional (CSN) is hitting the road ahead of a proposed new issue, just a month after investors told GlobalCapital that an impressive rally in the company’s debt made it a strong candidate to tap bond markets.

Consorcio Transmantaro, the Peruvian power transmission company, could be the next Latin American corporate to tap dollar markets after mandating for a green bond that Moody’s says is not quite fully green.

No sooner had the dust settled on the first global nuevo sol bond sale from a non-financial corporate in 14 years than a second Peruvian company announced its plans to do the same, leaving DCM bankers curious to discover the depth of the local currency market.

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.

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.