Americas

Brazilian state-owned development bank Banco Nacional de Desenvolvimento Econômico e Social (BNDES) will buy back nearly $650m of existing bonds, including over half of its existing green bond.

Loomis Sayles’ senior loan portfolio manager Kevin Perry will retire in March 2019 after 17 years with the company and 37 years in the industry, the firm said on Tuesday.

The strong demand that has permeated the dollar market over the last few weeks showed no signs of abating on Tuesday, as a pair of borrowers issued benchmarks that were comfortably oversubscribed.

The US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) on Monday said it had appointed Mark Wolfe as its associate director for the Office of Derivatives Policy and Trading Practices.

Goldman Sachs has named a new head of the financial institutions group in Asia Pacific ex-Japan, and a new co-chairman for global FIG.

The African Development Bank has become the first supranational bank to use a securitization sold to private investors to free up balance sheet capacity. The deal, four years in the making, demonstrates a new technique that could expand development banks’ firepower to promote development.

The African Development Bank’s $1bn synthetic securitization is not its first risk transfer transaction, and will not be its last. The bank has marked itself out as a leader in this sphere, though the effort to get such techniques to work is also highly collaborative.

Latin American DCM bankers are hoping that Brazilian pulp and paper producer Suzano Papel e Celulose gave the market the fillip it needed as the borrower enjoyed smooth execution on a surprise outing on Monday.

Garrett Motion began to market euro bond funding for its separation from Honeywell this week, as high yield investors close on some of the largest deals seen so far this year.

Dexia Crédit Local and CPPIB Capital released initial price thoughts on Monday for their new five year dollar benchmarks amid what bankers called a "good backdrop" for the maturity. Both deals are due to be priced on Tuesday.

Assets allocated to US exchange traded products and funds hit a record high in August, after assets left the space when volatility returned to US markets in February.

Soft demand and higher costs continue to hit Grupo Kaltex, leading Standard & Poor’s to downgrade the Mexican textiles company to B- last week and maintain the bonds on negative outlook.