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Uruguay did not pay much new issue premium, if any
A normalisation of Argentinian borrower access to markets has helped spur issuance
Issuance in euros by LatAm & Caribbean sovereigns is at record levels
The sovereign priced inside paper of similar maturity from Brazil and Colombia
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The nascent sustainability-linked bond (SLB) faced a big test this week with deals from the oil, power and steel sectors, and most notably from Brazil meat processor, JBS. But if the enthusiastic reception to the deals suggested the market passed with flying colours, there were calls for more scrutiny of the relevance of KPIs if the SLB label is to mean anything. Oliver West reports. -
Latin American supranational Corporación Andina de Fomento (CAF) has become the first borrower from the region to sell paper linked to Sofr.
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A trio of foreign banks tapped an attractive Swiss market this week, finding opportunities to top up their well-advanced funding programmes with a bit of pricing arbitrage.
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Light, the fifth largest energy distributor in Brazil, began investor calls on Wednesday ahead of a proposed five year non-call three deal that it will use to redeem its only international bond. The company joins a long line-up of LatAm companies preparing to issue, with the strong pipeline likely to translate into new supply as soon as Thursday.
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Bankers working on Brazilian meatpacker JBS’s $1bn sustainability-linked bond on Tuesday said that ESG funds had been responsible for some of the largest orders in the controversial company’s deal, as corporate borrowers in some of the least green sectors join the ESG debt carnival.
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Santander Chile sold its first public international bond in over a year on Tuesday, turning to the Swiss franc market and pricing well inside its domestic curve as the local market loses its lustre.
