Banks

Jeffrey Mathews has been promoted to managing director at Barclays, based in New York.

Brazil's national development bank BNDES has announced that an auction will take place on June 18 for Companhia de Eletricidade do Amapá (CEA), an energy distributor in the country's northern Amapa State.

A pair of sponsors has tapped the bank market to raise financing for a portfolio of mixed generation assets in Chile which include both operational and greenfield projects.

Quinbrook Infrastructure Partners' portfolio company Scout Clean Energy has secured a $50 million letter of credit facility.

Sempra Energy has reached financial close on the sale of its Chilean assets to State Grid International Development, after announcing the agreement in October of last year.

A group of banks led by IDB Invest are about to launch a liquidity credit line to help Chilean power companies impacted by the freeze in power prices implemented at the end of 2019.

BNDESPar, the private investment arm of Brazilian development bank BNDES, has hired a financial adviser to assist with the sale of its stake in AES Tietê Energia.

Petrobras and Wobben Windpower have entered the binding phase of the sale process of two jointly-owned wind assets in Brazil.

Market participants in Mexico say new transmission costs imposed on power projects approved before the 2014 Energy Reform – known as proyectos legados – will have a trickle-down effect in the sector harming the asset's developers, equity investors, lenders and off-takers.

Sempra Energy aiming to close the previously announced sale of its Chilean assets to State Grid International Development on June 24.