Brazilian state-run energy company pens $4.35bn in debt, increases facility from $3bn, sources
Category: Loans
Mexican banks remain resilient, Fitch Ratings
Country’s FIs increase profitability amid a tougher macroeconomic environment, rating agency says
Brazil bears down on cryptocurrencies
Brazil is shutting down brokers’ bank accounts and barring investment funds from buying bitcoin. Now a fight over the future of cryptocurrencies has broken out in Latin America’s largest market.
Colombian banks bounce back
After a couple of tough years, Colombia’s banking sector expects to return to higher rates of growth in 2018, although it knows it is unlikely to match results from the first half of the decade.
Latin American banks hone socially responsible lending policies
Latin America’s banks are stepping up to address environmental issues and other social matters in their lending policies. But financiers and investors say long-term profits are also at stake.
Argentina courts infra investors
Argentina wants to attract international investors with a massive PPP program. Developers and banks say they are interested, but the jury is still out whether the country is back on good terms.
AFD inks loan, heightens cooperation with BRDE
French development bank agrees to lend $62m to Brazilian peer, pair will pinpoint sustainable financing initiatives
Eosol secures Nafin loan, VAT facility
Spanish developer inks $70m in debt, seals first financing for a merchant project selling to Mexico’s MEM
Enel Americas gets syndicated loan
Chilean-based power company snares $500m from five banks at 55bp over Libor, sources
Five banks emerge on TA loan
Five MLAs round out $1bn facility for Argentine telecom, sources
