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Business has sagged in the third quarter, but the pipeline is busy, despite an intractable war
Private bonds are now being offered in the open market wider than where public deals trade
Even as USTs stay near 5%, supply expected to pick up
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EM investors have had a gut wrenching week as a barrage of bad news — some within the emerging markets and some external to them — chipped away or in some cases annihilated their year’s returns so far. But though some fund managers said that they now fear a further widespread sell-off in EM assets similar to the second half of 2018, syndicate bankers said that there is a queue of issuers ready, waiting and expecting to be able to tap the international bond markets imminently. -
Emerging market fund managers have been steeling themselves for disastrous outflow data as geopolitical events shook the asset class and EM currencies. But numbers from EFPR Global suggest the exodus has been somewhat benign, with even one day of inflows.
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Colombian airline Avianca is offering bondholders the chance to swap unsecured bonds at par for new secured debt as it looks to stave off a looming maturity and clinch $250m of shareholder funding.
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The Indian government has sent out a pair of request for proposals for banks to lead the IPOs of FCI Aravali Gypsum and Minerals India (Fagmil) and Telecommunications India (TCIL).
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Thailand’s largest block trade in six years has seen Singaporean state-owned investment fund Temasek Holdings bagging more than $500m from a sale of Intouch Holdings stock. The vendor took advantage of a surge in the Intouch’s stock price and plans to return and clean up its remaining stake. Jonathan Breen reports.
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Spanish impact fund Magallanes Impacto and India’s Northern Arc Capital’s joint investment in a Rp1.06bn ($15m) ‘pooled bond’ transaction highlighted foreign investors’ interests in India’s non-banking financial companies (NBFCs), as cash-strapped lenders look for alternative sources of funding. Addison Gong reports.
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