Category: Regions

Mexico’s off-balance sheet financing scheme got the massive El Cajón dam project underway.

Demand from institutional investors in Mexico’s bond market outstrips supply. There are just not enough high-quality bonds around, but this could be changing.

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 capped a three-year campaign in 2003 to construct an even and long-dated yield curve in the local market when it successfully place a MP$1.19 billion ($108 million) 20-year fixed […]

América Móvil, Mexico’s biggest cellphone company, blazed a trail across Latin America in 2003, building up a regional network. Armed with a healthy balance sheet and access to low-cost financing […]

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 […]