Canadian Pacific Railway Ltd. has emerged as an unlikely target for a few distressed-debt investors. It wasn’t because of the railroad operator’s creditworthiness, but rather because rising interest rates pummeled the value of some of its bonds in recent months ahead of its roughly $30 billion acquisition of U.S. rival Kansas City Southern, according to a WSJ Pro Bankruptcy commentary. Canadian Pacific sold bonds in December 2021 to finance the acquisition, including $2.4 billion in notes due 2031 and 2041, with coupons of 2.45% and 3%, respectively.

Canada’s recent moves to impose stricter rules on crypto companies show that US regulators have allies in cracking down on the asset class after last year’s turmoil, Bloomberg News reported. Canadian securities regulators in February gave a 30-day deadline for unregistered crypto trading platforms operating in the country to commit to a so-called pre-registration undertaking. Firms are required to follow tougher regulations on segregating customer assets and prohibited from offering margin or leverage to users in Canada.

El Salvador has tapped a former International Monetary Fund official as an adviser as it seeks a deal with the multilateral lender, Bloomberg News reported. Alejandro Werner, who retired as head of the Western Hemisphere Department at the IMF in 2021, has been working with the Central American nation’s government this year. President Nayib Bukele’s government has struggled to secure an extended fund facility agreement with the IMF, which has warned repeatedly against the risks of using Bitcoin as legal tender.

SAS will not be using the second tranche of its $700 million debtor-in-possession (DIP) term loan in the second quarter of the year, due to stronger than expected development of the airline's liquidity, the airline said on Monday, Reuters reported. SAS may, depending on the development of its liquidity, continue discussions with Apollo regarding access to the second tranche of the DIP term loan at a later stage of the chapter 11 process.

The Bank of Mexico's governing board struck a more dovish tone at its March 29 monetary policy meeting, with board members discussing the possibility that the bank's rate-hiking cycle may have reached its end, minutes from the meeting showed Thursday, Reuters reported. Banxico, as the Mexican central bank is known, hiked its benchmark interest rate by 25 basis points to 11.25% at that meeting, moderating the pace of a tightening cycle that began in mid-2021.

Interest rates in Canada may have to stay restrictive for longer to ensure inflation declines to the Bank of Canada's 2% target, Governor Tiff Macklem said on Wednesday, Reuters reported. Macklem, speaking after the bank announced that it was holding its key rate at 4.50%, said the central bank's governing council had discussed whether rates had been raised enough. Macklem said that while the bank was encouraged inflation was dropping, the job of monetary policy was not done.

Zambian President Hakainde Hichilema said China and the U.S. have a responsibility to set aside their differences and help countries such as his get the debt relief they need to avoid further damage to their economies, WSJ Pro Bankruptcy reported. With finance officials from around the world gathering in Washington this week for the International Monetary Fund and World Bank biannual meetings, Mr. Hichilema’s country is emerging as a focal point of discussions on how to restructure poor nations’ debts. U.S.

The Bank of Canada is expected to take in stride surprising recent economic strength and leave interest rates unchanged at its meeting on Wednesday, pinning its hopes on activity cooling as higher borrowing costs sink in, analysts said, Reuters reported. Last month, the Bank of Canada became the first major global central bank to pause its rate-hiking campaign, after lifting its benchmark rate to a 15-year high of 4.50%. It said no further tightening would be needed if the economy slows, or even moves into a slight recession, as it expects.

Mexican automotive production and exports rose in March from the same month a year earlier, data from the national statistics agency (INEGI) showed on Monday, Reuters reported. Production increased by 13.12% to 346,124 vehicles, while auto exports rose 3.88% to 272,687 vehicles, the data showed. Read more.