Despite risks stemming from US President Trump’s administration, sovereign issuers in Latin America have made a record start in 2025 for their funding in the international debt capital markets.
The market for sovereign issuers in this region was discussed at OMFIF’s Sovereign Debt Institute’s Latin America sovereign debt outlook in February 2025. The annual virtual meeting brought together a wide range of senior officials, public sector issuers and debt management offices in the region, as well as investors and intermediaries focused on the market.
‘There’s a price for everything,’ said Nick Eisinger, co-head of emerging markets active fixed income at Vanguard, at the virtual meeting. ‘There’s lots of risks in the world around the new administration in the US, which has pretty quickly shown some of their initial colours.’ He added that, ‘some of the risks were beginning to be priced in towards the back end…
