Argentina
#BondsLoans24 - Size, price, tenor… but what are global banks’ criteria for lending to the region?
Benjamin Velazquez (ING), Jose Merigo (Societe Generale), Eduardo Zemborain (ICBC Argentina), Sara Pirzada (SMBC) outline their approaches, strategies and criteria lending into Latin America
13 Jul 2020
Argentina: as Default Looms, Currency Depreciation, Inflation Begin to Bite
As tough negotiations with creditors over the country’s USD70bn debt pile continue, a further decline in the peso and rising food prices are adding to the ever-growing list of issues facing the country’s population.
17 Apr 2020
Latin America’s Governments Rush Through Stimulus Measures to Counter Pandemic Impact
Brazil, Argentina, Peru and Colombia have announced urgent fiscal stimulus measures to compliment monetary policy moves introduced over the past two weeks to sooth markets after a huge spike in volatility.
20 Mar 2020
ESG In Infrastructure: Building a Sustainable Future for Latin America
Sustainability is becoming a crucial consideration in the development of infrastructure across the globe, particularly in Latin America – which is facing one of the biggest infrastructure gaps in the emerging world while also remaining exceedingly vulnerable to the effects of climate change. The region’s top investors and developers explored the nexus of sustainable investing, project…
10 Mar 2020
Total Capital Markets Financing in Argentina Jumps 276% YoY in January 2019
An increase of 65% was recorded in January compared to the previous month, according to CNV.
24 Feb 2020
IMF Warns Argentina Bond Holders That Haircuts May be "Unavoidable"
The Fund held a series of “productive” meetings with Argentine officials in Buenos Aires, commending the overall efforts to restore growth and reduce poverty, but signalled that write-offs will be inevitable.
20 Feb 2020
Argentina’s Pragmatic Economic Team Bodes Well for Outlook – Ashmore Group
Argentina’s president-elect revealed his new cabinet this week, a team that included Martin Guzman, a notorious IMF critic and debt restructuring specialist as Economy Minister – a move EM-focused fund managers at Ashmore took as a welcome sign.
13 Dec 2019
Private Credit in Latin America: Helping SMEs Transition to Corporate Finance
The asset class that first came to prominence in the region several years ago is resurfacing in a big way, driven by investors’ hunger for yield and diversification, helping SMEs and corporates source alternative funding in the meantime. But questions are being asked about the sustainability of private debt were the global environment to deteriorate and liquidity to drain from the market.
28 Nov 2019
What to Expect from Argentina in 2020?
Argentina celebrated the first round of Presidential elections in late October. Investors largely characterized the vote as a kind of referendum between a continuation of market friendly economic reforms by incumbent Mauricio Macri or a comeback to a more interventionist approach by challenging Alberto Fernández, who was leading a Peronist coalition – but there is good reason to believe things…
19 Nov 2019
Off the Record: Low Rates Supporting Issuance Volumes in Latin America as Libor Transition Looms
In 2020, Latin America’s largest markets are largely going be to characterised by picky investors, persistently low yields, infrastructure development, LIBOR-related woes, and socio-political upheaval, according to dozens of bankers, investors, lawyers and credit ratings agencies who spoke with Bonds & Loans on a recent trip to the region. We’ve summarised the top five themes likely to drive the…
12 Nov 2019
HSBC Sees Green ‘Truly Entering Mainstream’ as Chile Takes ESG Funding Innovation to Next Level
Chile’s impeccably timed and well-executed debut foray into the Green bond market set a number of milestones, building on a growing pipeline of Green and ESG-linked transactions in the Americas, and reinforcing the trend that these formats are viable components of the funding toolkit for a broadening range of organisations. More impressively so, Chile executed its inaugural Green issuances in USD…
9 Oct 2019
Ashmore: The Path to Averting a Default in Argentina
Investors are suddenly much more concerned about the political transition in Argentina, but default is by no means a certainty, argues Ashmore's Gustavo Medeiros, and opportunities abound.
23 Aug 2019
HSBC Sees Growing Regulatory Capital Supply out of Latin America
As the first wave of securities issued under Basel III rules start to approach or eclipse key call dates, testing the market for the relatively nascent asset class, banks across the Americas are finally coming to grips with rapidly evolving and increasingly complex regulatory capital requirements in their respective jurisdictions. With new rules providing regulatory clarifications coming onstream…
24 Jul 2019
Total Eren: ECAs Key to Argentine Power Funding as Banks Sit Out the Volatility
RenovAr, Argentina’s flagship solar and renewables programme, has struggled in recent months due to the severe macroeconomic challenges weighing on the country. But as the country’s markets stabilise, developers focused on the region remain cautious as upcoming elections later this year could result in a change of direction. We speak with Martin Parodi, Managing Director, Total Eren Argentina,…
14 May 2019