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  • Bond syndicate bankers covering Latin America were not ruling out a return of new issuance in the next two weeks as the market tone improved on Tuesday after a bleak Monday. But with fears around negative fund flows growing, it may be hard to persuade investors to put cash to work even if valuations look attractive.
  • Companies in sectors under strain from the Covid-19 outbreak are expected to rely on bank funding if debt markets remain out of reach, using funds from as yet undrawn revolving credit facilities and signing new bridges to bond facilities or bilateral loans.
  • With EM bond funds already seeing outflows, many fund managers are frantically trying to raise cash in preparation for what the next week may hold with investors gripped by the “disastrous” performance numbers generated over the last few days.
  • Can the capital markets function properly with its workforce operating remotely, whether from home or at disaster recovery centres? This question is becoming increasingly important as the Covid-19 infection rate rockets and the death toll grows. One organisation that has more experience of coping than most is the Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank, based in Beijing.
  • CIMB Group Holdings and CIMB Bank chief executive Zafrul Aziz has been named Malaysia's new finance minister, amid tumultuous political change in the country.
  • The debt crisis at Citic Guoan Group deepened after the company announced its eighth domestic bond default this week. Fellow Chinese issuer, Macrolink Holding Co, was also unable to pay back a Rmb1bn ($144m) bond as the Covid-19 outbreak took a toll on its businesses.