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Emerging & Frontier Markets

Nicaraguas Political Impasse

Fifteen months after a political crisis erupted, the economy continues to wobble. Some of the damage is self-inflicted; some imposed from outside.

Features

No-Consensus Forecast

Political strife is hammering Nicaragua’s economy. Can the nation’s stakeholders return to common ground?

Capital Raising & Corporate Finance

NICARAGUA’S GRAND CANAL AMBITIONS FAIL TO WOO VOTERS

Newsmakers | Nicaragua When Nicaraguan president Daniel Ortega announced last December a plan to construct a controversial transoceanic waterway that would provide an alternative to the Panama Canal, he vowed the project would create jobs and bring prosperity to the hemisphere’s second-poorest nation.

Awards

ANNUAL SURVEY: WORLD’S BEST BANKS 2014

In our 21st annual survey, Global Finance identifies the best banks in 150 countries and eight regions. The winners are not always the biggest banks, but rather, the best—those with the qualities that corporations should look for when choosing a bank.

Awards

BEST BANKS 2014: LATIN AMERICA

While Latin American banks continued to expand their client base and footprints, the sector still faced important challenges.
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Nicaragua

Browse additional economic indicators and data sets, selected by <em>Global Finance</em> editors, to learn more about Nicaragua economic outlook, debt to GDP ratio, international trade performance and population trends. 

Capital Raising & Corporate Finance

China: A Man, A Plan, A Canal

NEWSMAKERS By Erik Heinrich Wang Jing is a man who likes to think bighis is the kind of grandiose thinking...

Features

VIDEO Best Bank Awards

The full ceremony, held this year in Washington, DC during the week of the IMF/World Bank annual meeting.

Media

Carlos Briceo Ros, Banco Lafise Bancentro

The General Manager at Banco Lafise Bancentro discusses the bank's being named the Best Bank in Nicaragua for the second year in a row. He also explains why tapering by the US Federal Reserve won't have a big impact on the country.

Award Winners

World’s Best Banks 2013: Latin America

By Thomas Clouse, Jonathan Gregson, Antonio Guerrero & Gordon Platt LOCAL BANKS INCREASE MARKET SHARE While European banks have dominated Latin America’s banking sector for more than a decade, their stronghold has recently weakened. Some have sold local assets ...
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