Category: Regions

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

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 […]

Mexico notched up a remarkable number of firsts in the markets last year. It was the first emerging markets borrower to issue bonds with collective action clauses, it retired its […]

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 […]