Global Finance Magazine

Global news and insight for corporate financial professionals

Global news and insight for corporate financial professionals

Latin America

Join the global community of corporate and public-sector finance industry leaders reading Global Finance monthly in print.

Click Here

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 ...

Award Winners

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 ...

Banking

World’s Best Banks 2012: Regional Winners

By Gordon Platt, Thomas Clouse, Jonathan Gregson & Antonio Guerrero Regional Winners BEST BANK IN NORTH AMERICA JPMorgan Chase   JPMorgan Chase is the top US bank by assets. “For America’s largest companies, we raised or lent over $720 billion ...

Award Winners

Awards: Project Finance & Infrastructure

CHANGING OF THE GUARD IN PROJECT FINANCE   By Gordon Platt   As public purse strings tighten, pension funds are the most promising source of long-term funding for infrastructure projects, according to an OECD report supported by Oliver Wyman.   ...
arrow-chevron-right-redarrow-chevron-rightbutton-arrow-left-greybutton-arrow-left-red-400button-arrow-left-red-500button-arrow-left-red-600button-arrow-left-whitebutton-arrow-right-greybutton-arrow-right-red-400button-arrow-right-red-500button-arrow-right-red-600button-arrow-right-whitecaret-downcaret-rightclosecloseemailfacebook-square-holdfacebookhamburger-newhamburgerinstagramlinkedin-square-1linkedinpauseplaysearch-outlinesearchsubscribe-digitalsubscribe-printtwitter-square-holdtwitteryoutube