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Mexico paid a similar new issue premium for its $9bn deal last week
◆ What has driven this week's record issuance and what might threaten sentiment ◆ Why the Maduro affair is a wake-up call for the EU ◆ Resolving Venezuela's debtberg
New issue premiums were slim for the LatAm sovereign duo
It will take years and huge amounts of money to get Venezuela in a state to restructure its debt
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Latin America’s largest e-commerce company MercadoLibre and Mexican cement maker Cemex kept up the hectic conditions in the LatAm primary bond market on Thursday, with the huge order book on MercadoLibre’s inaugural bond issue the clearest indication of risk appetite among EM buyers. -
Emerging markets issuers of all flavours ignored convention and stormed into primary bond markets this week, with great success. Renewed warnings about increasing debt ratios in emerging nations were no match for an extraordinarily supportive technical picture as investors piled into deals — even as Democratic victories in US Senate run-offs pushed rates higher. Mariam Meskin and Oliver West report.
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Mexican non-bank lender Crédito Real began investor calls on Wednesday as it looks to take advantage of highly liquid bond markets to partially refinance a bond maturing in 2023, and simultaneously align the covenant packages on all of its senior unsecured bonds.
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Latin American DCM bankers hailed Brazilian paper company Klabin’s first sustainability-linked bond (SLB) as an encouraging sign for the ESG debt market in the region, as a huge order book allowed the issuer to tighten by 55bp from initial price thoughts and land well inside its curve.
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Bankers said that Brazilian bank BTG Pactual achieved tighter pricing on its green bond than it would have done on a conventional bond, after it became the first Latin American private sector bank to issue such a benchmark in US markets.
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Nueva Elektra del Milenio, the company that operates the retail store and money transfer businesses of Mexico’s Grupo Elektra, will begin virtual meetings with bond investors on Wednesday as it looks to sell a senior secured bond collateralised by remittance flows originated in the US.
