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Stormy Recovery Path for the Caribbean

Despite hurricane damage, average economic growth in the Caribbean is expected to top the Latin American average according to the IMF. However, Dominica's GDP is expected to decline and weak growth is likely in Puerto Rico and the U.S. Virgin Islands where pre-existing macroeconomic weaknesses were compounded by storm damage.

News

EU Gives Consumers New Data Controls

On May 25 this year, the adoption of Europe’s new General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) is set to become a watershed moment in privacy history: EU citizens gain new rights to view, limit and delete data that businesses from around ...

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Reining In Big Tech

The dominance of media-technology platforms that control information has roused regulators around the world. New laws are coming into effect, with more on the way.

News

A Lightbulb Moment For GE

GE stock has lost more than 40% of its value since 2000, when Flannery’s predecessor, Jeffrey Immelt, was appointed.

Capital Raising & Corporate Finance

Sovereign Debt | Venezuela Defiant In Face Of Bond Default

Venezuela’s external debt is variously estimated between $120 billion and $143 billion, including as much as $63 billion of foreign bonds.

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Latin America | Economic Laggards Recover to Slow And Steady Growth

As Latin America’s laggards recover, growth is trending toward a regional norm of slow but steady.

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World’s Best Banks 2017 | Q&A with Banorte

The bank's CEO Jose Marcos Ramirez Miguel sees less risk now from revising the regional trade deal, even a "very positive impact" on Mexico's economy.

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Best Banks 2017 | Q&A with Banco de Chile

The bank's chief economist Rodrigo Aravena sees more growth for the country and the region although economic risks remain.

Features

Q&A With Bank of Italy | A Tortoise Economy

Ignazio Visco, governor of the Bank of Italy since 2011, spoke with Global Finance about economic conditions globally and in Italy, where the banking system has been stressed, efforts to improve those conditions and Italy’s slow-and-steady return to growth.

Emerging & Frontier Markets

Are Emerging Markets Ready To Rebound?

Emerging markets could see funds flowing back to them as central banks unwindquantitative easing and liquidity flows back to emering market assets.

Banking

Central Bankers Eye A Return to Normal

The rosier outlook gives central banks a chance to return to more traditional policies after endless cycles of easing. The US Federal Reserve (Fed) is likely to stick to its plan of slowly increasing interest rates, and the European Central Bank (ECB) could follow suit.

Capital Raising & Corporate Finance

Equifax: A Breach Too Far

The breach has put the personal data of 143 million people at risk of identity theft.