The wind begins to shift to the capital market in the wake of falling interest rates to near historic lows and the contraction of bank credit after two years of deep recession. Since last year, the favorable environment has opened space and consolidates a trend of strong growth for corporate debt issues, along with capital openings and subsequent stock offers, which increasingly assume a major role as a source of financing for large companies .
Between January and September, data from the Brazilian Association of Financial and Capital Market Entities (Anbima) shows that the issuance of fixed income securities in Brazil and abroad by companies plus funding through variable income in the country reached R$ 176.3 billion, or three and a half times the volume of R$ 49.9 billion granted by BNDES in the same period, according to figures from the state bank itself.
For Sergio Goldstein, chairman of Anbima’s corporate finance committee, the expansion is expected to continue in 2018: “the economy probably accelerates next year and thus there’s no way the capital market does not come along.”
A singularly favorable situation fuels this movement of greater participation of the capital market as a source of funds: falling interest rates and prospects that it will remain close to historical lows for a prolonged period, low inflation, growth, albeit gradual, and a change in the policy of subsidized rates by the BNDES.
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