Otoyol and YDA both walked away with two gongs at last night’s Bonds & Loans Turkey Awards. Otoyol’s $4.65 billion Project Loan to develop Gebze-Izmir Motorway picked up the Awards for Project Finance Deal of the Year and Syndicated Loan Deal of the Year, while YDA’s Dalaman Airport Project Loan won Transport Finance Deal of the Year and their TRL400m bond won Local Bond Deal of the Year.
12 Nov 2015
Against a backdrop of political and economic volatility Turkey’s incumbent mobile telecoms provider Turkcell recently concluded the sale of an oversubscribed 10-year US$500mn Eurobond, with a redemption date of October 15 2025. The transaction was announced with initial price guidance of 6.25%. Following strong interest from European investors in the early hours of book-building, the orderbook…
6 Nov 2015
Wilbur Matthews, Chief Executive Officer and Chief Investment Officer, Vaquero Global Investments LP explains how the volatilities in FX impacted his investment strategy in Mexico.
31 Oct 2015
Francisco Navarro, Chief Financial Officer, Thor Urbana outlines what factors are currently shaping investment strategies in the real estate sector.
31 Oct 2015
David Scouras, Treasury Client Solutions, Senior Financial Officer, International Finance Corporation (IFC) explains how the IFC is helping clients access local debt capital markets.
31 Oct 2015
Robert Rennhack, Deputy Director, Western Hemisphere, International Monetary Fund (IMF) explains how the oil prices impacted Mexico’s capital markets.
31 Oct 2015
The upcoming election could keep Argentina on the path towards further misery.The most market-friendly outcome would be an opposition win.Without a change in governments, it’s hard to envision a significant step back from the unorthodox policies set forth by Presidents Kirchner and Fernandez, explains Dr. Win Thin, Senior Vice President and Global Head of Emerging Markets Strategy at Brown…
30 Oct 2015
Jorge Mendoza, Deputy Head of Public Debt, Ministry of Finance and Public Credit, United Mexican States explains what the government’s sovereign issuance strategy look like over the coming six months.
30 Oct 2015
Jorge Unda, Chief Investment Officer, BBVA Bancomer Asset Management shares his views on how Mexican fixed income will perform relative to other EMs and other Latin American economies in the coming months.
30 Oct 2015
Clean energy is on the rise in the UAE, with the country’s Energy Minister Suhail Al Mazroui recently claiming it expects to invest roughly US$35bn into low carbon energy generation, including solar power, by 2021. And Dubai is at the centre of the country’s efforts to diversify its energy sources. We speak with Taher Diab, Senior Director, Strategy and Planning at the Dubai Supreme Energy…
23 Oct 2015