Americas

Developing markets investment bank Exotix believes that Argentine power company Albanesi’s 9.625% 2023s are “money good”, despite a rapid fall in bond prices after the company’s CEO was arrested.

Chinese peer-to-peer lender Weidai is seeking an IPO on the New York Stock Exchange, even as the troubled sector continues to reel from tightening regulations.

Rabobank's head of sustainable markets has left the bank, to take up a job in Brazil. He will be replaced by a colleague who has worked in sustainability for many years.

Andrade Gutierrez, the Brazilian construction firm, wrapped up its debt restructuring this week with a well-received bond exchange as Brazilian high yield names keep investors on their toes in the absence of new issuance.

Investor concerns over a growing corruption scandal in Argentina brought a new bout of volatility to Latin American bonds this week, with market participants on both the buy-side and sell-side appearing to have written off the prospect of new issuance in September.

The drive launched by California treasurer John Chiang to promote a more vigorous municipal green bond market in the state comes as US local governments’ green bond issuance has dipped after early strong growth.

Elon Musk’s sensational claim to have funding in place to take Tesla private stunned the US capital markets this week, but the lack of substantive detail to the plan has largely reversed an initial rally in the firm’s equity and debt instruments, as well as reportedly drawing the attention of the Securities Exchange Commission. Aidan Gregory and David Bell report.

A pair of US sanctions against Russia could have potentially disastrous consequences for local and international bond investors, especially if a planned ban against the purchase of new sovereign debt takes effect, writes Lewis McLellan.

BMC Software was set to print $2bn of triple-C rated bonds this week, as it changes sponsor hands from Bain and Golden Gate to KKR. The new owner was also pushing for some of the loosest covenants in the market.

Each of the first three days of this week saw a jumbo bond deal in the US corporate bond market, but the volume of other deals dwindled as the week progressed, and Thursday struggled to achieve $1bn of issuance.

Elon Musk likes causing a stir on Twitter. Last year he announced his plans to avoid traffic in Los Angeles by digging large tunnels between his home and his office on the site. But the CEO might have dug an ever deeper hole for himself this week by tweeting that he was seeking to privatise Tesla at $420 a share with funding secured.

US financial firms, including Prudential Financial and Wells Fargo, raised plenty of funds and capital in the first half of the week. One of them, Discover Bank, could encourage other banks to use a callable structure when issuing tier two.