Latin American capital markets: A brave new debt world

With Latin America’s equity markets still shut, some cash-strapped corporates will be able to turn to the debt markets to raise much-needed funds, although opportunities will be limited and only selective credits will have access.

Even so, corporate bond issuance volumes could hit last year’s level of $28 billion, according to one banker. “In each of the next three years about $50 billion of international Latin American bonds and loans are maturing. If just the maturing debt is refinanced, we’ll be very close to 2008 international volumes. Given equity markets are less accessible, the volumes of previous years should easily be exceeded,” says Chris Gilfond, head of debt capital markets for Latin America at Citi.

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