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The coronavirus pandemic has ramped up African sovereigns’ need to spend, resulting in a wave of credit rating downgrades. But market participants are split over the perception of credit risk in the region and how that will affect future issuance. -
The world’s largest independent McDonald’s franchisee, Arcos Dorados, is planning to tap its senior unsecured bonds due 2027 as it looks to refinance debt raised to tackle the Covid-19 crisis.
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Consorcio Transmantaro, the Peruvian transmission company and one of the few Latin American issuers to have improved its credit profile this year, is turning to bond markets for the first time since April 2019 to finance investments.
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Banco Hipotecario, the Argentine bank focussed on mortgage and consumer loans, is asking holders of a dollar bond maturing in less than three months to swap their paper for a new 2025 bond and cash. If bondholders do not accept the terms, default is likely, says Moody’s.
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The Schuldschein market, which has spent the last few years growing increasingly international compared to its domestic origins in Germany, has lost its adventurous streak due to the coronavirus pandemic. Forays into unknown territories with borrowers from new industries are being treated with trepidation and lenders are heading back to what they know best.
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Europcar will be a test case for the treatment of government-guaranteed loans during a restructuring, as the French car rental company was among the earliest and largest users of the French state’s corporate support scheme.
