REDD Talks - Cancelling out the Noise REDD Intelligence

In this edition of REDD Talks, we discuss the distressed and private credit opportunities in the Middle East and Turkey with Berkay Oncel, Head of Investments for the Middle East at SC Lowy. We talk about the lessons learned from Europe’s private credit market, and explore the recent regulatory developments in the region, alongside the expectations from the market for the near future. Available on Spotify, RSS and Apple Podcasts

Get ready for an insightful REDD Talks episode featuring Yulianna Vilkos, Managing Editor of REDD CEEMEA, and Gausia Shaikh, Legal Analyst at REDD CEEMEA. They dive deep into na exclusive in-house research project, The REDD Intelligence CAC Strength Index!

Join us as we explore this groundbreaking index that categorizes collective action clauses (CACs) in sovereign bond documentation as Strong or Weak. The index evaluates a sovereign's ability to aggregate bonds for debt restructuring purposes, shedding light on potential risks of holdouts in future sovereign debt restructurings.

In this episode, we focus on the legal peculiarities of bonds issued by Pakistan, Ghana, Sri Lanka, Turkey, and more. Gain fascinating insights into CACs in selected sukuk issuances and understand the nuances of these markets.

REDD Intelligence Asia Managing Editor Eveline Danubrata discusses the trends in China, Southeast Asia and India with three distinguished speakers: Tiffany Wong, Managing Director at Alvarez & Marsal; Jacqueline Chan, Partner at Milbank; and Suharsh Sinha, Partner at AZB & Partners.

In this REDD Talks podcast, Moody's senior VP Nymia Almeida shares her thoughts on Latam's national oil companies as oil prices decrease from 2022 highs. Pemex's debt burden and coming bond maturities put pressure on the company, and also on Mexico to show its full support. AMLO's energy policy hasn't improved Pemex finances, despite copious cash transfers. Meanwhile, peers Petrobras and Ecopetrol are in better shape and making efforts to improve environmental standards. But 2023 also brings challenges to operators, mainly due to new federal administrations.

In this edition of REDD Talks, we delve into the outlook for Turkey ahead of next year’s highly anticipated elections. In a wide-ranging discussion with KPMG Turkiye’s senior restructuring partner Orhan Turan, we explore how the state of the real economy, monetary policy and lending conditions are all affecting Turkish companies and banks, and what opportunities are available for international investors.

In this REDD Talks - Cancelling the Noise episode, REDD’s Latam Managing Editor Maria Fernanda Blaser and Head of Mexico Xochitl Herrera take a deep dive into the rise and fall of Mexican non-bank lenders. Once some of the favourites of foreign investors with billions of dollars in bonds, those companies were financing the growth of their portfolios but showing very little concern to accounting requirements.
With the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic, accounting issues were exacerbated, and investors were then asking what was the real liquidity position of the non-bank lenders. The downfall of those companies started when Alpha Credit announced it was reinstating results of three years. Shortly after, it filed for Chapter 11 in the US and for concurso mercantil in Mexico. Alpha was followed by Credito Real, which couldn’t refinance a CHF 170m bond and then Unifin, which blamed its default on the lack of financing for the sector. Unifin and Credito Real are restructuring and this saga is still far away from ending.