CFO Insights
Interview: Nedbank Bullish on East Africa, Refinancings and ECA-backed Deals to Dominate This Year
Despite overall syndication volumes down year-on-year, Sub-Saharan and East African markets are seeing pockets of activity and positive developments, including extending tenors and more corporates coming to market. We speak to Samta Lalan, Head of Distribution at Nedbank, about the lender’s key focus areas, market outlook and challenges facing the banking industry in Africa.
6 Sept 2018
Metito CFO: “Managing exposure to EM investments under the IFRS 9 ECL model is a challenge in GCC”
Metito is a leading provider of choice for water management solutions in the emerging markets with operations covering segments including chemicals, and utilities. Although the company is based in the Gulf, it operates on a global scale. We speak to the Holding’s CFO Wafic Ghanem about Metito’s funding plans for the coming year, including hedging and refinancing programs and market…
5 Sept 2018
How Serbia Improved its Fiscal Position and Catalysed the Local Capital Markets
Branko Drcelic, Director of the Public Debt Administration at the Ministry of Finance, Serbia sat down with Bonds & Loans to discuss how the country moved from chronic deficits to a healthy surplus, catalysing a local currency debt capital market in the process.
28 Aug 2018
MLP Care CFO: Smart Balance Sheet Management Key to Finding Borrowing Windows in Turkey
Turkey’s healthcare industry has moved forward leaps and bounds since the government overhauled the sector in 2003, and the present currency dynamics coupled with high external savings rates and a huge concentration of domestic medical expertise has translated more recently into a health tourism boom – a bright beacon floating in troubled waters. Bonds & Loans speaks with Burcu Öztürk, CFO of MLP…
23 Aug 2018
Mixta Africa CFO on Affordable Housing Initiative, High Cost of Funding and Advice for Borrowers
With pressure on high-yield assets and non-investment grade credit across EMs, Mixta Africa, an African property developer and fast-rising player in the continent’s real-estate market, is doubling down on its corporate principles – including adaptive product development, low cost land acquisition and establishing local communities – to navigate those challenges. Bonds & Loans speaks with Benson…
21 Aug 2018
Luft Energia CEO Doris Capurro Eyes Multilaterals, ECAs for Argentina Renewables Funding
Doris Capurro, President, CEO & Founder, Luft Energia talks to Bonds & Loans about the company’s renewable energy development plans, and its bid to tap into multilateral development institutions and export credit agencies to help finance the next wave of projects in the pipeline.
16 Aug 2018
Interview: Sharjah DMO Director on the Building Boom in UAE, ECA Financing and PPPs
With trade wars and geopolitics-related volatilities engulfing global markets, the GCC finds itself in an unusual role of a relative safe-haven, insulated from the tremors by strong growth and a high oil price. We speak to Tom Koczwara, Director of the Government of Sharjah’s Debt Management Office, about prospects and challenges facing the Emirate.
9 Aug 2018
Odinsa CFO: Colombia’s Economic Tailwinds, New Government to Bolster Existing 4G Pipeline
Colombia is a world leader when it comes to public-private partnerships in the infrastructure sector, and the country’s flagship toll road infrastructure initiative – the 4G programme – is regularly held up as a beacon for other regional economies to replicate. But last year, due in part to eroding economic fundamentals and political volatility, many of the programme’s key projects were hit with…
7 Aug 2018
A LIBORious Transition: Weaning the World off the Most Popular Credit Benchmark
About a year has passed since the UK FCA’s Chief Executive Andrew Bailey set the deadline for the financial markets’ transition away from LIBOR, upon which roughly USD350tn in securities, loans and derivatives across five major currencies is contracted. Finding an alternative that can satisfy the diversity of markets that rest upon this crucial benchmark is proving to be more elusive than…
3 Aug 2018
Juan Pablo Newman on Mexico’s Elections, Peso’s Resilience and Samurai Bonds
As Mexico continues to show resilience in the face of multiple external challenges, including stalemate in the NAFTA negotiations, pressure on the EM currencies from a rallying dollar and global trade wars, its debt capital markets have largely switched into a wait-and-see mode. But issuance windows offer plenty of opportunities, so we speak to Juan Pablo Newman, the Head of Public Credit at the…
17 Jul 2018