Americas

Wells Fargo has named a new regional president for Asia Pacific, promoting Jafar Amin.

Argentina’s largest province, Buenos Aires (PBA), raised $1.5bn of five and 10 year bonds on Wednesday as investors showered love to the tune of $4.3bn upon the 120bp pick-up to the sovereign it paid.

Silgan Holdings, a maker of consumer goods packaging in the US, this week priced the first cross-border high yield deal of 2017 as it plans to repay term loans.

Emerging market bankers are busy on the road as mandates start to ramp up but this week all eyes will be on Nigeria, which wraps up investor meetings on Wednesday.

The initial launch of the new regime for margin requirements for non-cleared derivatives passed on September 1. This first wave affected those firms with the largest presence in the market for both initial and variation margins under the new regulations.

Peruvian mortgage lender Fondo Mivivienda on Tuesday found a high level of appetite for local currency paper with a $600m-equivalent dual tranche deal of which three quarters was in Nuevo soles.

Now there’s a chance that the marginalised and downtrodden voters of rust belt America will get what they really want — a wholesale dismantling of the post-crisis banking regulation — the finance industry must ask itself if that’s what it really wants.

The speed and success of Sibanye Gold in closing a loan to back its acquisition of US palladium miner Stillwater, has put South Africa in focus for bankers amid talk that two other acquisition deals out of the country could follow soon.

Law firm Latham & Watkins has strengthened its practice in New York, with the addition of a Mandarin speaking partner to its corporate department and financial institutions group.

Peruvian government owned mortgage lender Fondo Mivivienda is planning to issue both dollar and nuevo sol-denominated bonds on Tuesday in its first international bond sale for nearly three years.

Brazilian mining giant Vale took advantage of a huge recovery in iron ore prices since Donald Trump won the US presidential election to tap its 2026s some 105bp inside where it first issued the bonds in August.

The solid performance of last week’s Latin American new issues will give heart to an Argentine corporate borrower looking to bring a new bond on Monday.