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Best Banks in Latin America 2019: Beating The Odds
Difficult economic conditions didn’t keep Latin America’s best banks from growing in 2018. Strategic focus is on digitization and outreach to the unbanked.
Author: Santiago Fittipaldi
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Colombia’s Duque Pushes For Growth After Dramatic Win
With the civil war over, Colombia can focus on growing its economy.
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Cultural Revolution: Q&A With Head Of Strategy At Sander Enrique Alvarez
Enrique Alvarez, head of Strategy at Santander, talks about the impact of digitization, mobile banking and other groundbreaking technologies being put to work in Latin America.
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El Salvador Banking Outlook Improving: Q&A with Banco Agrícola’s CFO Ana Beatriz Marin Restrepo
Global Finance discusses goals, strategy, and prospects with Banco Agrícola's CFO Ana Beatriz Marin Restrepo.
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World’s Best Bank Awards 2018: Latin America
Adversity builds resilience:Inured to the region’s perennial issues, Latin American banks keep finding a way to prosper.
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A Culture Of Customer Service: Q&A With CEO of Produbanco Ricardo Cuesta Delgado
Global Financesat down with the CEO of Produbanco to discuss the mounting challenges for Ecuadorian banking.
Capital Raising & Corporate Finance
Argentina’s New Finance Minister Wrestles With Peso
Argentina
The appointment of Alfonso Prat-Gay as Argentina’s new Finance minister was a clear sign to international investors that president Mauricio Macri, sworn in December 10, was serious about unraveling the populist policies of the previous government.
Economics, Policy & Regulation
Latin America Cleans Up Its Act
Grassroots anti-corruption movement promises new era of transparency.
Banking
Central Banker Report Cards 2015
Global Finance’s annual evaluation of the work of the world’s central bankers found some stellar performances, and some dismal ones. The toughest challenge for many: propping up falling prices.
Emerging & Frontier Markets
Emerging Markets : Acquisition Crumbles
BRAZIL Brazilian mining giant Vale walked away from Xstrata acquisition talks. Vale, the Brazilian mining giant formerly known as CVRD, decided to walk away from its proposed $90 billion acquisition of Swiss miner Xstrata after both sides failed ...
Emerging & Frontier Markets
Milestones : Peru Makes The Grade
PERU Peru's president Alan Garcia: Fiscal policies led to upgrade. While analysts debated whether Brazil or Panama would win the race to become the next Latin American investment-grade-rated country, Peru beat both countries to the finish line. Citing ...
Banking
Cover Story : 2005 World’s Best Banks
Annual Survey The biggest banks in the world have performed like well-oiled money-creating machines this year, generating billions of dollars...