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Despite rough market conditions and angst over rates, array of deals have been well taken
It is difficult to see issuance conditions growing much better in the foreseeable future
Société Générale and Standard Chartered provided euro and yen tranches respectively in first World Bank-backed transaction involving the Japanese currency

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  • Uruguay-headquartered Navios South American Logistics on Tuesday notched a $500m 10-year bond that left the company with a far more comfortable debt maturity profile. But Navios had to improve terms for investors — and wait a week after it first announced the issue — to get the refinancing done.
  • Commerzbank has appointed Tony Zhang as the country chief executive for China and the general manager of its Shanghai branch.
  • Castle Peak Power Co’s latest energy transition bond shows the potential of the product in Asia — and the big role capital markets can play in moving towards a greener future.
  • Indomobil Finance Indonesia has launched a $240m borrowing into general syndication, changing its approach to the fundraising after market sentiment improved.
  • Clean, green energy exists; it is more or less unlimited and it is increasingly cheap to harvest through solar and wind farms. Why are we not converting to renewables wholesale — especially in poor countries, which tend to have abundant sunshine? A significant part of this market failure is financial, and capital markets must solve it.
  • BBVA is the latest large European bank to have suffered a ratings downgrade during the Covid-19 pandemic, with Fitch having moved the issuer’s debt ratings down by a notch blaming a weaker operating environment in Mexico and Spain.