Issuances registered between January and September 2016 exceed 60% of the total issuances registered throughout 2015, and projections are that the year will close with $7 billion traded in the local market.
The scandal generated from the leaked information about the firm Mossack Fonseca, "Panama Papers", and the questions about the lack of financial transparency that arose afterwards, do not seem to have affected the attractiveness of the stock market for providing finance to companies through the issuance of securities.
On August 4 the Ministry of Finance will auction $50 million in Treasury notes maturing in June 2019.
The auction will take place on August 4, with a settlement date on August 7 and maturity on June 5, 2019, and the resources will be used to "finance the government ... or to pay for other debt programs."
According to a statement published by the Panama Stock Exchange (BVP) the auction will be American, multiple price and will be held in the BVP, the paying agent is the National Bank of Panama and the registration agent is Central Latinoamericana de Valores. Submission of bids will be received from 9:00 am. 10:00 pm. through the electronic auction system of the BVP.
An announcement has been made that in the short-term auctions of securities by Panamanian State will no longer be made in the local market and instead will be carried out through the Bloomberg platform.
Given the lack of investment in technology on the part of Panama stock exchange, the government has announced that it will begin making the auctions using the Bloomberg platform. The will allow for more transparent transactions by the State.
The amount of trade between January and June this year represents 53% of total traded in the market during 2013.
In the month of June 2014 alone transactions in the securities market of Panama totaled $469.7 million, with the primary market, where new issues are made, being the most important, with 53% of the total traded.
"... In the first six months of the year the total cumulative volume of the market represents 53% of the proceeds from all of 2013. Whilst January to June $2,671.8 million was accumulated, from January to December 2013 the figure was $5,018.8 million. "