Brazil

Brazilian auto parts supplier Tupy began investor calls on Monday morning ahead of a proposed senior unsecured bond that it wants to use to finance a tender offer for existing bonds.

Car rental company Movida became the third Brazilian company this year to sell a sustainability-linked bond when it raised $500m of 10-year debt with a coupon step-up linked to carbon emissions on Thursday.

Car rental company Movida is looking to become the third Brazilian company this year to issue sustainability-linked bonds (SLB), just two weeks after its parent company issued a similar instrument.

Brazilian waterway logistics services provider Hidrovias do Brasil will begin investor calls on Thursday as it looks to sell new bonds to finance a tender offer launched last week for existing bonds.

Bond bankers said that Brazilian agribusiness company André Maggi (Amaggi) was the ideal credit for the market’s current tastes as the borrower notched a hefty oversubscription and tightening for a debut sustainability bond on Thursday. A tier two deal from Brazilian lender Banrisul confirmed that high yield appetite in Lat Am remained robust.

Banco do Estado do Rio Grande do Sul (Banrisul), the 10th largest bank in Brazil, is approaching international bond investors for the first time since 2012 as it looks to return to markets with a tier two bond issuer.

Four heavily oversubscribed Latin American new issues fetched tight pricing on Thursday, dispelling the unease felt at the week’s start and putting the region firmly on track to fulfil the predictions of record primary volumes for a January.

Two of Latin America’s most established borrowers, the Colombian sovereign and Brazilian bank Itaú, returned to international bond markets on Tuesday. Though both issues were priced roughly as expected, bankers on and away from the trades said there were signs that Lat Am’s roaring start to 2021 was losing steam.

The Association of Brazil’s Indigenous Peoples has written an open letter to BlackRock’s CEO Larry Fink, who is expected to publish his annual letter to stakeholders this week. Apib wants BlackRock to end what it calls its “complicity” in the destruction of the Amazon rainforest, and to consult indigenous people as it finalises its new policy on biodiversity and deforestation.

Six of the 11 Latin American borrowers to have priced or announced new cross-border bonds so far in 2021 have opted to show off their ESG credentials while doing so — either through dedicating the use of proceeds or by issuing in the more novel sustainability-linked format. Brazil is leading the way, with three further mandates on Monday.

Latin America’s largest e-commerce company MercadoLibre and Mexican cement maker Cemex kept up the hectic conditions in the LatAm primary bond market on Thursday, with the huge order book on MercadoLibre’s inaugural bond issue the clearest indication of risk appetite among EM buyers.

Emerging markets issuers of all flavours ignored convention and stormed into primary bond markets this week, with great success. Renewed warnings about increasing debt ratios in emerging nations were no match for an extraordinarily supportive technical picture as investors piled into deals — even as Democratic victories in US Senate run-offs pushed rates higher. Mariam Meskin and Oliver West report.