Americas

Banco Supervielle, the Argentine lender, is looking to increase the size of its existing bond shelf from $800m to $2.3bn, according to a regulatory filing.

The UK Embassy in Peru and Bolsa de Valores de Lima (BVL), the Lima Stock Exchange, have launched plans for what would be the first green bond market in South America, following a similar initiative in Mexico.

Mexican state-owned giant Pemex will buy back $1.8bn of old bonds in the second leg of a liability management exercise funded by its recent bond issue.

New issue markets in Latin America took a pause this week, but DCM bankers covering the region were not overly concerned as recent deals issued amid the volatility began to gain ground.

Two Latin American companies on the path to recovery from precarious situations have found themselves somewhat stuck in their liability management efforts because of tougher conditions in new issue markets.

As investors turn their eyes to Mexico’s forthcoming presidential elections, Fitch said the country’s economic and fiscal resilience would be tested this year.

Daimler led three corporate dollar issuers on Thursday as the market stabilised and high grade credits showed their resilience after a stop-start week.

The US high yield market is hunkering down, with skittish investors pulling a record amount of cash for the sector this week while the proportion of investors shorting high yield exchange traded funds hits a post-crisis high. David Bell reports.

Implied equity volatility on US stocks, measured by the CBOE’s VIX index, showed signs of cooling off on Wednesday and Thursday, after it dropped from 27 on Monday and Tuesday to 19.7 on Thursday.

Christopher Giancarlo, the chairman of the Commodity Futures Trading Commission, will visit European regulators in London, Brussels, Frankfurt and Madrid next week in an attempt to defuse European efforts to alter unilaterally the supervision regime for foreign clearing houses.

As investors turn their eyes in earnest to Mexico’s forthcoming presidential elections, Fitch said that the country’s economic and fiscal resilience would be tested this year.

Baidu-backed video streaming platform iQiyi has filed documents with the US market regulator for a listing of American Depository Shares (ADS), according to the Chinese parent company’s quarterly earnings report released on Tuesday.