LatAm Bonds

Klabin became the third Brazil pulp and paper producer to sell green bonds on Tuesday, squeezing pricing more than 40bp from initial price thoughts.

Peruvian plastic packaging company San Miguel Industrias sold seven year bonds below 5% on Tuesday, with the yield achieved by the Peruvian company particularly impressing bankers.

Money managers say that blended products are the most efficient way to invest in emerging markets as cross-asset class total return funds trump those with a sole focus.

Banistmo, the Panamanian lender owned by Bancolombia, sold its first ever international bond on Tuesday, offering a pick-up to the curve of its peer Banco General.

Emerging markets cable and mobile group Millicom International Cellular will look to price a $500m 10 year non-call five bond on Wednesday, according to bankers close to the deal.

A hefty back-up in US Treasuries did not stop Chilean oil company Enap clinching its longest ever bond issue on Monday, offering what bankers off the deal saw as a single digit new issue premium.

Peruvian plastic packaging company San Miguel Industrias could return to bond markets on Tuesday after announcing initial price thoughts for a new dollar denominated deal.

The Brazilian Monetary Authority (CMN) has published a covered bond regulatory framework which paves the way for the country’s five largest lenders to press ahead with deals. Though the move is credit positive for banks, they are unlikely to issue in euros in the near term.

Millicom International Cellular has added to a growing corporate bond pipeline this week with a 10 year non-call five note, which will be combined with a buy-back.

South American sovereign Uruguay will use some of the proceeds from its Ps31.603bn ($1.1bn) of new 10 year local bonds to buy back nearly $105m of old dollar and inflation-linked notes.

Bond markets gave Uruguay’s inflation expectations a vote of confidence and underlined the sublime funding conditions available for EM issuers by piling into the South American nation’s longest ever nominal peso-denominated bond issue.

Pulp and paper producer Suzano Papel e Celulose reopened its 10 and 30 year bonds to the tune of $400m in total on Tuesday, becoming the first Lat Am issuer out of the blocks in September and the first of three pulp and paper companies from Brazil likely to issue this month.