Americas

Sea said its backer Tencent Holdings, the Chinese technology giant, will take up a $100m portion of the southeast Asian e-sports company’s $696m IPO in the US.

Colombia’s largest lender, Bancolombia, raised $750m of tier two subordinated bonds this week in the first Basel III-compliant transaction from the country.

Brazilian steel producer Gerdau this week became the latest Latin American issuer to take advantage of hugely benign conditions to issue new debt inside where its existing curve was trading.

Northrop Grumman and Wal-Mart printed the biggest deals in their history as event-driven dollar bond supply roared back to life following the Columbus Day holiday.

Chairman of the Commodity Futures Trading Commission Christopher Giancarlo on Wednesday announced his intention to postpone a decision on the derivatives threshold that forces firms to register as swap dealers.

Abu Dhabi Commercial Bank is set to come to market for a potential triple tranche kangaroo bond on Friday, following a deal from Emirates NBD that, according to a banker at one of ADCB’s leads, showed the market was still accessible to Middle Eastern borrowers.

The chair of the commodity futures trading Commission, Christopher Giancarlo, on Wednesday announced

The chairman of the United States' primary derivatives regulator, Christopher Giancarlo, on Wednesday delivered a stinging rebuke of unilateral rulemaking by the European Union on foreign clearing house supervision, saying that as a “sovereign nation”, the “United States is a rule maker” and not a “ruletaker”.

A trio of Asian firms listing in the US have received stellar responses to their IPOs, with Qudian, Rise Education and Sea all getting the thumbs-up from investors.

Luis Caputo, the finance minister of Argentina, said on Wednesday that the South American sovereign would likely return to the euro-denominated bond market in late October or early November.

The International Swaps and Derivatives Association (ISDA) on Wednesday published a protocol that limits the scope of legacy credit default swaps referencing Venezuelan debt to obligations not restricted by recent US sanctions on the country.

Chilean power company Colbún will buy back more than 70% of its existing $500m 6% 2020s after wrapping up the early-bird portion of a tender offer.