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Paraguay continued the relative rush of Latin American issuance on Thursday with a heavily demanded $1bn 11 year bond becoming the second high yield sovereign from Latin America in two days to tap bond markets to fund Covid-19 mitigation. -
Mexico proved its capital market prowess with a highly oversubscribed $6bn bond this week, despite facing a wave of downgrades, concerns about the contingent liability represented by Pemex, and investor fears that the government is reacting too slowly to the Covid-19 pandemic.
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The coronavirus pandemic has made for a tumultuous time in corporate finance. Banks’ relationships with long-standing clients have come under strain, with lending conditions tightening just as some companies need a sudden injection of cash like never before. Bank of America’s dealings with FTSE 100 publishing and events company, Informa, provide one example of the difficult decisions facing lenders.
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The CLO market is in the middle of the panic phase of the current crisis, and a new life cycle in the time of Covid-19 will run for two to three years before the sector normalizes, said speakers in a virtual panel held by IMN on Thursday.
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After years of not only falling loan volumes but being trounced in their own back yard, Europe's banks finally seem to have an edge against their US counterparts. With loan pricing gapping out in response to the coronavirus pandemic, but companies desperate for cash, the continent's lenders are proving first port of call for local borrowers, leaving US and Asian banks less active. Silas Brown, Mariam Meskin and Mike Turner report.
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Any concerns over whether the eurozone periphery would have market access after Bund spreads yawned wider during the past week were put to bed by a combined €31bn of borrowing from Italy and Spain. The sovereigns paid what was needed to put impressive dents in their ballooning funding requirements, ahead of a hotly anticipated European Council meeting on Thursday. Lewis McLellan and Tyler Davies report.
