Latin America

Argentina announced an agreement with bondholders on Tuesday to restructure $65bn of debt. The country's dollar bonds had rallied late on Monday as rumours circulated that a deal was close following months of negotiations with either side repeatedly rejecting the other's proposals.

More than 95% of the holders of each of Ecuador’s 10 international bonds participated by Monday’s deadline in a consent solicitation that allows the sovereign to restructure $17.4bn of debt.

Electricity giant AES Corporation is preparing a bond issue that will consolidate the debt of its Panamanian operating subsidiaries into one special purpose vehicle (SPV).

Ecuador will be able to proceed with a consent solicitation to restructure $17.4bn of bonds after a New York judge denied a motion from Contrarian Capital and GMO for a temporary restraining order (TRO) on the process.

Mexican miner Industrias Peñoles sold $600m of bonds on Thursday to keep Latin American primary markets ticking over as sell-side bankers expect only a trickle of deals from the region until September.

Ecuador on Thursday afternoon agreed to delay the deadline of its bond restructuring offering by one business day after two funds began legal actions against it. But a US court hearing on Thursday morning was not promising for the litigious investors, and markets believe there is still a high chance of the deal going through.

In recent weeks, Argentina’s public relations agency has been cramming the inboxes of financial journalists as the government goes on the attack in an apparent attempt to guilt-trip dissenting creditors into accepting its restructuring offer.

Industrias Peñoles, the world’s largest producer of refined silver, began investor calls on Wednesday ahead of a proposed $600m bond issue with the Mexican mining company largely unaffected by the impact coronavirus pandemic.

The chief financial officer of Panama’s second largest bank, Banistmo, told GlobalCapital that Wednesday’s bond issue was a sign of investor confidence not only in the issuer but in the prospects for the country, as economists say they expect it to be one of the outperformers in Latin America.

The Central American Bottling Corporation (CBC), a major bottler and distributor for drinks giants PepsiCo and AmBev, raised $200m of funding in bond markets on Tuesday in an effort to refinance debt and support its cash balance.

Banistmo, Panama’s second largest lender tightened pricing sharply on a seven year bond on Tuesday as bankers said the market was still in excellent shape, though others thought the bank had been too conservative with its pricing strategy.

In recent weeks, Argentina’s PR agency has been cramming the inboxes of financial journalists as the government goes on the attack in an apparent attempt to guilt-trip dissenting creditors into accepting its restructuring offer.