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Safest Banks in Latin America: April 2013
GLOBAL FINANCE names the Safest Banks in Latin America: April 2013 NEW YORK, February 26, 2013 Global Finance magazine (www.gfmag.com)...
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Economics, Policy & Regulation
Newsmaker: Venezuelan Successor Fails To Allay Concerns Over Power Vacuum
NEWSMAKERS: VENEZUELA By Valentina Pasquali As Hugo Chávez’s 13-year-long domination of Venezuelan politics is overshadowed by ill health, speculation over who will carry on his legacy is largely focused on vice president Nicolás Maduro Moros, whom Chávez himself appointed as his ...
Emerging & Frontier Markets
Emerging Markets Roundup: Brazil
BP TO EXPAND ETHANOL PRODUCTION By Antonio Guerrero Aiming to accelerate industrial growth, the Brazilian government extended its PSI investment program through 2013, providing $48 billion in financing to support subsidized loans for industrial producers to invest in ...
Banking
Global Salon: Sergio Luna, Banamex
DIVERGING ECONOMIES By Vanessa Drucker For this month’s Salon, Global Finance sat down with Sergio Luna, assistant director of economic research at Banamex and liaison to the research group of economic analysis and markets, Citigroup, in New York. ...
Capital Raising & Corporate Finance
Videgaray Appointment Signals Mexico Is Ready For Reform
NEWSMAKERS: MEXICO By Valentina Pasquali Still struggling with drug-related violence that has killed more than 60,000 people in the past six years, Mexico is a country on the mend. Finance minister, Videgaray, will target energy and fiscal ...
Emerging & Frontier Markets
Emerging Markets Review: Sustainable Growth In Latin America
SUSTAINING MOMENTUM By Antonio Guerrero Prolonged Western concerns and slowing in China are beginning to affect the region’s outlook. It will be up to Latin America’s largest economies to keep the impetus alive. According to the IMF’s ...
Capital Raising & Corporate Finance
Latin America: Brazilian Protectionism
BARRIERS TO ENTRY By Antonio Guerrero Though its economic growth may be stalling, Brazil is still an attractive destination for investors. But the recent imposition of tariffs on certain imports has sparked an international ruckus. For several ...
Emerging & Frontier Markets
Latin America: Rise Of The Mexican Jaguar
RISE OF THE “JAGUAR” By Antonio Guerrero Mexico’s new business-friendly president has promised to open up state-owned oil companies to private investment. If so, Mexico could overtake Brazil as the region’s largest economy within a decade. Photo ...
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Awards: World’s Safest Banks 2012
ANNUAL SURVEY: DOWN, BUT NOT OUT By Andrew Cunningham Global Finance presents it annual ranking of The World’s Safest Banks. European banks still account for 20 of the World’s Safest 50 Banks, but Europe’s hold on the ...
Capital Raising & Corporate Finance
Debt: Emerging Corporate Debt Grows
CORPORATE FINANCING NEWS: CORPORATE DEBT By Gordon Platt Global investors are creeping further out on thin ice to capture the higher yields available on bonds issued by companies in emerging markets (EM). Analysts caution that many of the ...
Capital Raising & Corporate Finance
DRs: Santander Mexico IPO Sets Record
CORPORATE FINANCING NEWS: GLOBAL EQUITY / DRS By Gordon Platt Santander, the eurozone’s biggest bank by market value, said it would issue up to $4.3 billion of shares in an initial public offering of up to 24.9% of its ...
Capital Raising & Corporate Finance
New YPF Chief Has His Work Cut Out For Him
NEWSMAKERS: ARGENTINA Miguel Galuccio is very busy these days. The new CEO of Argentine firm YPF is discussing possible joint ventures with Chevron, Gazprom and the Argentine firm Bridas—partially owned by China's CNOOC. YPF aims to restore ...