Americas

As banks struggle with tracking brokerage costs, they need to work out ways to properly manage cost transparency by normalising their trade data.

South American development bank CAF (Corporación Andina de Fomento) returned to the euro markets for the second time this year with a smaller deal than some were expecting amid volatile European markets.

Top officials from global supervisory bodies furiously debated the implications of new European rules that change the oversight of foreign clearing houses, covering the role of central banks, national regulators and arrangements in crisis situations.

Investors owning some $12.836bn-equivalent of Petrobras dollar and euro bonds offered to sell their notes in a tender offer before Tuesday's early bird deadline — more than three times the $4bn limit that the Brazilian oil company had set for the buy-back.

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.