High point for bond market

High point for bond market

Deals of the year: Tech and telecoms illustrate the ups and downs of 2000 Author: Felix Salmon Issuer: United Mexican StatesDeal: sovereign bond AMount: e1 billionJoint bookrunners: Schroder Salomon Smith Barney, Credit Suisse First Boston Freyne: “the perfect time to do a deal” Mexico’s e1 billion 10-year bond issue at the […]

Deals of the year: Tech and telecoms illustrate the ups and downs of 2000

Author: Felix Salmon

Issuer: United Mexican StatesDeal: sovereign bond AMount: e1 billionJoint bookrunners: Schroder Salomon Smith Barney, Credit Suisse First Boston







Freyne: “the perfect time to do a deal”

Mexico’s e1 billion 10-year bond issue at the beginning of March marked the high point of the Latin bond market for the year. It brought the Mexican story to a whole new class of investors – European institutions – who were set to become increasingly important to Latin American capital markets as the appetite of the dollar markets for Latin debt dried up.

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