Category: Regions

Mexico sold the largest-ever bond in British pounds placed by an emerging market issuer, locking in low prices in a demanding market that few Latin American issuers can access on a regular basis.

Taking advantage of strong domestic demand for peso-denominated paper, Mexico’s national oil company launched the country’s largest-ever peso bond and got bargain pricing.

Mexico’s nascent private equity industry is picking up as investors identify promising opportunities. All they need now is to find an exit.

Mexico’s dominant telecommunications company, Teléfonos de México (Telmex), firmly established itself as a polished, global issuer when it placed three-quarters of its $1 billion five-year bond with US high-grade investors […]

Asset-backed bonds, especially those backed by future flows, have become popular among private sector issuers in Mexico. But Comisión Federal de Electricidad (CFE), Mexico’s federal electricity monopoly, in April became […]

A decade ago, the Coca-Cola Company designated several companies as Latin America’s anchor bottlers. One was Mexico’s Coca-Cola Femsa and the other was Panama-based Panamerican Beverages. The companies quickly became […]

Mexican public credit officials and investment bankers from Citigroup and Deutsche Bank crisscrossed Europe last May and detected demand among institutional investors for a large, liquid, non-dollar global benchmark bond. […]

Pemex, Mexico’s state-owned oil monopoly, faces an unusual problem for a major oil company. Although it is one of the world’s largest oil producers, it is financially overstretched because it […]

The quest for money to build a water treatment plant led a Mexican city to devise a new financing mechanism that may help raise money for local government projects in […]

Coca-Cola Femsa, the Mexican soft drink bottler, has never had much need for the capital markets because of its ability to generate vast amounts of cash. The Monterrey-based company had […]