Volatility knocks out LatAm DCM but the effects will be short-lived

Huge international debt capital market issuance in September and October is forecast as investors may seek to take any US Treasury benefit through wider spreads.

The huge volatility witnessed in US and Japanese capital markets that erupted on August 2 is preventing Latin American issuers from accessing the international debt capital markets (DCM), but bankers do not expect any lingering problems as corporates eye the traditional September-October deal window.

“We’ve been marketing Oceânica [Engenharia] since last week and we had planned to announce IPTs [initial price thoughts] on Wednesday [August 7] but we’ve had to push that back,” said a banker involved in the deal.

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