Dominican Republic requires passport booklets for issuance of machine-readable passports.
Purchase of the Government of the Dominican Republic PASAPORTES-CCC-LPN-2021-0004:
"Direccion General de Pasaportes tenders acquisition of five hundred thousand passport books for the issuance of machine-readable passports, for Dominican citizens residing abroad and in the Dominican Republic.
The Central Bank announced for June 17 two auctions of monetary stabilization bonds in the local market, for a joint value equivalent to $75 million.
From the Central Bank of Costa Rica statement:
The Central Bank of Costa Rica informs the national market that it will hold an auction of Monetary Stabilization Bonds next Monday, June 17, 2019, and that in this event will make available to the public the following standardized series, whose characteristics are detailed below:
Moody's assigned to Empresa de Transmisión Eléctrica de Panamá a Baa1 issuer rating, arguing that it reflects key credit strengths and is the only electricity transmission company in the country.
Gilberto Ferrari, general manager of Empresa de Transmisión Eléctrica (Etesa) explained to Panamaamerica.com.pa that "... This qualification is one of the most important milestones in the history of the company and the energy sector of our country.
On November 14th, Banpro Grupo Promerica issued $200 million in bonds on the international market for a six-year term under the 144A format.
The bank announced that the issuance was made by Promerica Financial Corporation (PFC), its main shareholder, and that the issue was structured by Bank of America Merrill Lynch and Credit Suisse.
Ramiro Ortiz Mayorga, chairman of the board and CEO of Promerica, explained to Elnuevodiario.com.ni that "...
The Central Bank of Costa Rica informed that on November 12th, it made auction Monetary Stabilization Bonds in Colones, for an amount equivalent to $8 million, at a gross interest rate of 9.51%.
From the statement of the Central Bank of Costa Rica:
The Central Bank of Costa Rica announces to the national market that it will hold an auction of Monetary Stabilization Bonds next Monday, November 12th, 2018, and that in this event it will make available to the public the following standardized series, the features of which are detailed below:
The Nicaraguan government authorized the Finance and Public Credit Ministry to issue $279.7 million in debt securities to cover the budget deficit.
The presidential agreement details that "In order to comply with the provisions of Article 6 of Law 978; Amendment Law to Law 966, Annual Law of the General Budget of the Republic 2018, increasing internal financing through greater issuance of bonds of the Republic of Nicaragua for a total of C$9, 035,600,000."
Due to the "unstable security conditions" that are affecting the country, the US Embassy reported that as of May 16 it will not process routine applications for nonimmigrant visas.
The US Embassy explained that it will prioritize "... services to US Citizens, including applications for passports, Consular Reports of Birth Abroad, Immigrant Visa cases that are pending in the Consular Section and Emergency Nonimmigrant Visa services."
The Superintendency of the Securities Market will start asking for a risk rating in all applications for registration of securities.
From a statement issued by the Superintendence of the Securities Market:
May 10, 2017. - The Superintendence of the Securities Market (SMV) will require a risk rating as part of the documents that must be included in any application for registration of securities, in accordance with the provisions of Agreement 3-2017 of April 5, 2017, "Amending Agreement 2-2010 of April 16, 2010 on the Procedure for the Submission of Applications for Securities Registration and for Termination of Registration to the SMV and other provisions" published in the Official Newspaper La Gaceta No. 28259-A of April 17, 2017.
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.
The National Electricity Company is preparing a debt bond issue for 2017 of $150 million.
The resources obtained through sale of debt will be used to pay part of the debts generated with the entity's suppliers during the years 2014 and 2015, as authorized in the approved budget for 2017.
"...A financial report by the National Electricity Company reveals that debt payable to suppliers, mainly to private generators, is L9,645 million as of August 31 2016. "
The Ministry of Economy and Finance in Panama is putting out to tender the services of issue and minting of coins in current circulation in various denominations.
Panama Government Purchase 2016-0-16-0-08-LP-011947:
"This aim of this project is to hire a company to provide the services of issuing and minting coins that are in current circulation in various denominations, for a nominal value of up to 37.2 million dollars during the period 2016-2019.
The Ministry of Economy and Finance in Panama is putting out to tender the services of issue and minting of coins in current circulation in various denominations.
Panama Government Purchase 2016-0-16-0-08-LP-011921:
"The object is to hire a company to provide the service of issue and minting of coins in current circulation in various denominations, for a nominal value of up to 37.2 million dollars during the period 2016-2019.
The new regulation under public consultation states that all issues of securities registered with the Superintendency of Securities Market must have a risk rating.
The aim of the new regulations proposed by the Superintendency of Securities (SMV) is to provide more information on the emissions market for investors, so that they can"...
Between January and June registrations of securities issues amounted to $4.2 billion, up from the $2.944 billion recorded in 2015.
If the number of new issues registered with the Panamanian Stock Exchange continues to grow as it did in the first half of the year, the figure at the end of 2016 will be the highest in historical terms, surpassing the record of 2013, when $3.579 billion was recorded.
Citing that it has other revenue options, the airport administrators have postponed until 2017 an issuance of $50 million outstanding from the $625 million which was authorized.