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Capital Raising & Corporate Finance

BRAZIL: SMOOTH SAILING FOR PETROBRAS CEO?

Newsmakers | Brazil Aldemir Bendine became one of Brazil’s poster boys for success while at the helm of Banco do Brasil, but his new role as chief executive of the country’s oil giant, Petrobras, is causing him headaches.

Capital Raising & Corporate Finance

LATIN AMERICAN TRADE: A FIESTA WITHOUT A HANGOVER?

Regional Report | Latin America Colombia, Chile, Mexico and Peru are handling the drop in commodities prices better than the rest of Latin America.

Banking

SANTANDERS CLOUD GAMBIT: WILL MORE BANKS FOLLOW THEIR LEAD?

Trends | Global Banking On the surface at least, Spain’s Banco Santander and Cloud storage providers do not appear to have much in common.

Capital Raising & Corporate Finance

VENEZUELA: FREE-FLOATING CURRENCY UNLIKELY TO STAVE OFF DEFAULT

Milestones | Venezuela Venezuela’s introduction of a marginal free-floating currency system that will freely trade the US dollar and the bolivar seems unlikely to enlarge the country’s foreign exchange reserves or stem its growing external debt.

Economics, Policy & Regulation

Brazil: Correcting Its Fiscal Slippage

In a presentation in New York on February 18—his first official visit to the US since his appointment—Brazil’s Finance minister Joaquim Levy said that Brazilians are learning by doing.

Emerging & Frontier Markets

COSTA RICA: THE FDI SUCCESS STORY

Frontier Markets Report | Costa Rica Costa Rica has a long history of actively and successfully seeking outside investment. However, the country is dealing with high unemployment and an uncertain fiscal outlook, given that the government plans to ramp up spending on social programs, which could raise the debt level.

Emerging & Frontier Markets

US-CUBA RELATIONS THAW, BUT CHALLENGES REMAIN

Milestones | United States & Cuba After 54 years of economic and diplomatic isolation, relations between Cuba and the United States appeared to thaw in mid-January, when the U.S. implemented a host of regulatory changes to its sanctions regime against the Communist country.

Economics, Policy & Regulation

BRAZILIAN ECONOMY: CAN LEVY HELP IT TURN A CORNER?

Brazil | Newsmakers Joaquim Levy, Brazil’s newly appointed minister of Finance, will need to muster all his skills to navigate the rough waters of Brazilian domestic politics and restore the public budget surplus that made the country a darling of Wall Street investors.

Capital Raising & Corporate Finance

MEXICAN COMPANIES GAIN ACCESS TO EUROCLEAR FOR PESO DEBT

Corporate Debt | Capital Markets Euroclear will extend its cross-border settlement services at the end of January to Mexican corporate debt instruments known as cebures, or “bourse certificates.” This will enable Mexican companies to issue peso-denominated debt specifically targeted to international investors.

Capital Raising & Corporate Finance

ARGENTINA’S TAX DEPARTMENT STRIPS PROCTER & GAMBLE LICENSE

Corporate Tax | Management Approximately 500 American companies operate in Argentina—but on November 3 that number abruptly decreased by one as the country’s tax authority, the Administración Federal de Ingresos Públicos (AFIP) revoked the company’s registration, accusing P&G of tax and accounting fraud.

Economics, Policy & Regulation

LATIN AMERICA: END OF THE BOOM ERA?

Latin America | Emerging Markets Regional Review After years of strong growth, many key markets in Latin America are faltering. Although overall the region is no longer producing the high growth it once did, a number of markets continue to rise to new heights.

Capital Raising & Corporate Finance

OIL-RICH VENEZUELA FORCED TO IMPORT CRUDE

Venezuela | Milestones Venezuela, home to the world’s largest oil reserves at 298 billion barrels, is having a tough time getting the stuff out of the ground.