Americas

South American development bank CAF (Corporación Andina de Fomento) has released initial price thoughts for its second visit to the euro bond market this year.

Larry Thompson, vice-chairman of the Depository Trust & Clearing Corp, on Tuesday suggested that populist rhetoric in the US might be overshadowing President Trump's strong choices of leaders in independent financial oversight agencies.

Less than two years after it completed a restructuring in which all of its existing debt was wiped out, Frontera Energy is plotting a return to primary bond markets.

A decision by the new prime minister of Barbados to suspend all external debt payments sent the island’s bond prices down more than 50 points, stunning bondholders who were mostly not expecting to take the brunt of a long-term economic decline.

New Frontier Corp, a Hong Kong-based special purpose acquisition company (Spac), is planning an IPO in the US worth as much as $200m.

The Commodity Futures Trading Commission on Monday discussed a new proposal that would not change the notional threshold at which financial institutions have to register as swap dealers.

Chinese education firm Puxin's $166m New York Stock Exchange IPO was covered by demand from Asian investors alone on the first day of bookbuilding.

With Petrobras bond prices still on their way down after a truckers’ strike that caused the company to cut diesel prices, CEO Pedro Parente resigned on Friday — much to the dismay of Fitch Ratings.

Central American development bank Cabei issued Ps4bn ($199.8m) of Mexican peso denominated debt via a dual-tranche bond sale last week.

BB&T was the sole benchmark investment grade borrower to brave the dollar market in a week when political instability slammed the brakes on supply.

Royal Bank of Canada followed Toronto Dominion into the sterling covered bond market this week, pricing its first deal of the year at the same spread as its peer. Given a relatively high number of covered bond redemptions this year, RBC could well return.

Chilean electricity company Enel Chile will meet fixed income investors from Friday attempting to find the light at the end of a relatively dark month for Latin American markets.