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  • Stricter financial disclosure rules, a corruption scandal and a global equity market selloff derailed what should have been a big year for South Korean IPOs last year, leading to three of the biggest transactions being postponed. There are reasons for hope, but the country must overcome some serious structural challenges. Aidan Gregory reports
  • A bond market keen for duration welcomed pulp and paper producer Klabin’s dual-tranche offering this week, but a stormy atmosphere for Brazilian names put the new issue concession higher than recent deals as investors began to seriously doubt the country’s economic prospects.
  • The Peruvian subsidiary of Spanish group Telefónica will begin investor meetings on Thursday as it plans what would be the first ever global nuevo sol deal from a non-financial Peruvian corporate.
  • Fitch has slashed the rating of Mexican textiles company Kaltex by three notches to CC, warning that the issuer could soon look to restructure its $320m senior unsecured notes maturing in April 2022.
  • Telecoms company Cable & Wireless, which operates mostly in the Caribbean, added $300m to its longest dated bond on Wednesday in a deal that received strong backing from US high yield buyers.
  • The European Bank for Reconstruction and Development plans to raise its new investment to more than €10bn in 2019 for the first time in the bank’s history, after suffering a fall last year as it took a hit to its profits. By Phil Thornton.