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  • Suriname asked bondholders for more time to reach a crucial agreement with the IMF on Wednesday evening, requesting investors extend a previously agreed holiday on all bond payments.
  • Moody’s became the third rating agency in four months to downgrade Panama’s sovereign rating, cutting the borrower from Baa1 to Baa2 on Wednesday afternoon on the back of an “unusually large” erosion of the country’s fiscal strength during the coronavirus pandemic.
  • Bond bankers say new issuance from Latin America is unlikely to pick up until after Easter, even though they believe the technical dynamics in the market remain favourable for issuers.
  • Aberdeen Standard Investments, the asset manager with over £450bn ($625m) of assets under management, has hired an emerging markets economist from research firm Capital Economics.
  • Minerva and Marfrig, the Brazilian meatpacking rivals, said on Monday that they would prepay dollar bonds as part of continued efforts to reduce leverage.
  • The International Monetary Fund said in the concluding statement of last week’s Article IV mission to Belize that the government needs to restructure its debts to restore public debt sustainability, leaving bondholders bracing for a fifth credit event since 2007.