Americas

Staatsolie, the oil company 100% owned by the Surinamese government, will look to raise financing on international bond and stock markets if there are commercial oil finds in its waters.

Asian investors have piled into Qudian’s IPO on the New York Stock Exchange, with the $825m fundraising heavily oversubscribed even before it begins roadshows in the US, said bankers.

Borr Drilling, a Bermuda-registered, Oslo-headquartered offshore oil drilling company, has raised $650m with a 51% capital increase that was placed in an accelerated way on Friday evening.

S&P and Fitch have upgraded El Salvador’s foreign currency debt rating after the Central American sovereign completed a restructuring of debt owed to local private pension funds.

Rise Education, a Bain Capital-backed language trainer, has launched a Nasdaq IPO that could be worth $154m. The deal comes hot on the heels of RYB Education’s scorching success in the aftermarket.

Sea, the e-sports giant formerly known as Garena, opened the books for its $695.8m US IPO on Monday, after adding a group of southeast Asian banks as underwriters.

Fitch Ratings says China has made progress in downsizing the country’s shadow banking sector, the US Department of Commerce delays its decision over imposing tariffs on Chinese goods, and China Development Bank (CDB) loans to Africa total more than $50bn in the first half of this year.

Brazil sold new 10 year bonds this week as part of a liability management exercise, using a combination of a cash tender and exchange offer to buy back $3bn of short-dated bonds.

Chilean lender Banco de Crédito e Inversiones (BCI) became the latest Latin American issuer to take advantage of strong market conditions as it took the plunge on its first international bond issuance for more than four years.

Three of the first four Latin American dollar deals of the week were priced inside each borrower’s respective curve as syndicate bankers covering the region struggled to remember such an extended period of bond market strength.

Walt Disney joined the swell of blue chips entering the Maple market, selling C$1.25bn ($1bn) of seven year notes on Wednesday. Maple bonds, a suburb of niche currency markets for years, is becoming a hotbed for blue chips in search of diversification, writes Silas Brown.

Bank of Nova Scotia made a stunning splash in the dollar market as it printed the first offshore additional tier one (AT1) bond by a Canadian lender.