Samarco reaches restructuring agreement, Claro-VTR owners discuss short-term funding, Grupo Mexico gets concession extension and Digicel has more time to cure bonds default, among other topics.

Pemex plans a bond, Grupo Mexico negotiates compensation following expropriation, Unigel breaches covenants and Ecopetrol settles with unions.

Our second episode is a quick roundup of headlines from around the region, featuring Ecuador's president dissolving the Congress to govern by decree, the end of Avianca-Viva merger, a preliminary restructuring agreement between Credito Real and its unsecured creditors, and Light getting bankruptcy protection from a Rio de Janeiro court.

A quick roundup of headlines from around the region, featuring Light filing for bankruptcy, restructuring advisers for InterCement, a historic debt-for-nature swap in Ecuador, and why a Mexican court ordered TV Azteca not to release its financial statements.

Asia ESG Reporter Siya Kulkarni and Legal Analyst Urmika Tripathi discuss sustainability-linked bonds (SLBs) with Pallavi Gopinath Aney. This podcast focuses on SLB issuances out of India and the behavioural trends that have driven these issuances out of the region. Pallavi provides critical inputs and insights on regulatory drivers, the transaction process, potential innovations in SLB structures and the future of the SLB market in the region.

As part of our Asia Podcast Series - ESG Focused Season, ​we interview DBS's MD and Head of Fixed Income in EM, Mr. Clifford Lee. He enlightens us with a critical analysis on the structuring of SLBs; setting of the penalty mechanism; it's ambitiousness and materiality as well as the regulatory push driving SLB issuances in the region.

How will Indonesia’s state-controlled airline restructure its operations and emerge from under its crippling debt? Join Eveline Danubrata and Senior Analyst GD Agarwal as they discuss the airline’s predicament with Robert Schmitz, Managing Director at Fulcrum Advisory Asia. Mr. Schmitz was the financial adviser for Garuda Indonesia in its 2006 - 2010 debt restructuring and will compare his experiences with what the airline is currently facing.