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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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Debt capital markets bankers had been hoping for at least two years that Colombian oil company Ecopetrol could be persuaded to issue a bond. When the government-owned borrower finally opted to tap bond markets last week for the first time since 2016, it caught the eye by doing so with oil prices at historic lows, in the middle of the coronavirus pandemic and, unusually for a Lat Am issuer, on a Friday.
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International capital markets are facing a reprise of one of their most eerily familiar tales in the next month: the will-they-won’t-they tension of the run-up to an Argentina default, writes Oliver West.
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Paraguay continued the relative rush of Latin American issuance on Thursday with a heavily demanded $1bn 11 year bond becoming the second high yield sovereign from Latin America in two days to tap bond markets to fund Covid-19 mitigation.
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Mexico proved its capital market prowess with a highly oversubscribed $6bn bond this week, despite facing a wave of downgrades, concerns about the contingent liability represented by Pemex, and investor fears that the government is reacting too slowly to the Covid-19 pandemic.
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New ECM head at UniCredit — NIB treasurer heads to SEB — Mills takes up newly created position at UBS
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BNP Paribas has hired from Standard Chartered to bolster its Latin American debt capital markets team, GlobalCapital understands.