Coronavirus

Bonds Debt Corporate & Sovereign Strategy

Ratings agency cites erosion of fiscal and currency reserve buffers, weak hydrocarbon sector

Debt Bonds Loans

Colombian airlines asks a US court to endorse a $2 bln financing program with a $722 mln convertible loan

Economy & Policy Coronavirus Latin America

UPDATE: Colombia proposes indefinite VAT exemption period for the tourism sector

Bonds Debt Corporate & Sovereign Strategy

Argentine province asks creditors to be "collaborative" in offer to swap $694 mln in external bonds

Loans Debt Economy & Policy

US-based development bank provides a $100 mln to treat non-communicable diseases

Economy & Policy Coronavirus Latin America

UPDATE: Colombia makes 100,000 subsidized mortgage loans available until December 2022

Bonds Debt Corporate & Sovereign Strategy

Uruguayan hotel operator to bail on business as mounting losses push it toward default

Economy & Policy Coronavirus Latin America

UPDATE: Costa Rica holds interest rates at 0.75% to extend counter-cyclical monetary policy

Economy & Policy Debt Andean

Retailers, airlines and toll roads are likely to languish in Chile as power and gas utilities make rapid returns in Peru

Loans Debt Central America

Multilateral lender provides $60 mln for BAC Credomatic's Mujer Acelera program

Debt Corporate & Sovereign Strategy M&A

Chilean shopping mall operator could fetch $250 mln for investments and debt payments

Bonds Debt Capital Markets

Central bank tightens access to US dollars for principal payments in a move to protect its own reserves

Corporate & Sovereign Strategy Economy & Policy Capital Markets

IDB Invest buys the $100 mln in five-year notes from the Brazilian branch of the Bahrain-based lender

Economy & Policy Coronavirus Latin America

UPDATE: Paraguay says social expenditures to rise 16% in first nine months of the year, mainly due to COVID-19 response

Corporate & Sovereign Strategy Loans Debt

Brazilian miner withdrew $5 billion from two credit lines at the onset of the coronavirus pandemic in March