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Three Latin American companies issued bonds on Thursday and three more are meeting investors, as borrowers of all shapes and sizes assess the appetite for their debt. -
Investors saw Colombia’s decision to hit international bond markets on the day a national strike was planned as a statement of intent. But concerns over social unrest, or indeed a challenging fiscal outlook, paled into insignificance as yield hungry investors took the chance to buy into what remains an economic outperformer in Latin America.
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Two long-established, but long-absent, Brazilian issuers have turned to international bond markets as US dollar bonds become a more competitive option for the country’s issuers.
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Chile completed its $3.3bn of external funding needs for the year in two days this week, tapping both euro and dollar markets for green bonds that EM accounts say are becoming increasingly important for their end investors.
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After Mexican state oil company Pemex paid very little to issue a 40 year bond, rather than a 30 year, on Tuesday, two days later, the Dominican Republic opted for the same rare maturity.
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Seen with cynical eyes, the launch of JP Morgan’s Development Finance Institution (DFI) is simply an attempt to expand its emerging markets footprint — already the largest in the business — by capitalising on two trends: the wave of cash fleeing low yields for EM, and the unassailable momentum of the socially responsible investment movement.
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Sponsored by CAF – Development Bank of Latin America and the Caribbean
CAF gearing up to transform regional development
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Sponsored by European Investment Bank
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