Mexico

Mexican real estate investment trust (Reit) Fibra Uno will monitor markets as it continues to look for liability management opportunities after pulling a proposed Reg S-only trade last week, the company’s capital markets vice-president has told GlobalCapital.

Two of Mexico’s best-rated issuers eased through bond markets this week, even as the country faces ever-worsening economic forecasts, while bankers said Latin America’s top names could issue multiple times this year.

Mexican real estate investment trust (Reit) Fibra Uno pulled a proposed dollar Eurobond issue on Wednesday as investors said they believed the issuer may have underestimated the importance of the bid from US Qualified Institutional Buyers (QIBs).

DCM bankers said that Mexican personal care products maker Kimberly Clark de México (KCM) was from the ideal sector for this market after it tightened pricing on a new issue sharply despite a difficult day in global markets.

Mexican real estate investment trust (Reit) Fibra Uno’s plans to return to bond markets were shaken on Tuesday when the issuer delayed pricing “as part of company protocol” when an earthquake hit the country.

BBVA is the latest large European bank to have suffered a ratings downgrade during the Covid-19 pandemic, with Fitch having moved the issuer’s debt ratings down by a notch blaming a weaker operating environment in Mexico and Spain.

Mexican conglomerate Fomento Económico Mexicano (Femsa) turned to international bond markets for the third time this year20 on Monday, clinching its tightest dollar funding of the year despite wider spreads.

Generals, and financial regulators, are always fighting the last war. So it proved when the coronavirus slammed into international markets in mid-March. Many of the tools developed in the 2008 financial crisis were deployed to great effect by central banks. The corners of the financial markets that propagated weakness in 2008 passed the test of 2020. But new risks were thrown up, forcing a new round of improvisation. What lessons will be drawn from the Covid-19 crisis?

Latin American bond bankers were hopeful that Cemex’s blowout bond issue on Tuesday could cajole other issuers into the market after the Mexican cement producer navigated volatile secondary market and a rating downgrade to notch a hefty order on the way to a $1bn seven-year bond.

Mexican cement maker Cemex is likely to announce a new dollar bond first thing on Tuesday after holding investor calls on the same day Fitch downgraded the borrower and placed it on negative outlook.

After nearly two months of persuasion, Mexican petrochemicals company Grupo Idesa received the approval of its bondholders to push out some $300m of international bonds by six years and give major relief to its liquidity situation.

A supranational and a Nordic bank paid rare visits to the Swiss franc market this week. The North American Development Bank (NADB) printed its first deal in two years — its second green bond — while Nordea returned after a five year absence.