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Emerging & Frontier Markets

DR News: Bancolombia Sells Follow-On ADRs

EMERGING MARKETS INVESTOR: DR NEWS By Gordon Platt Bancolombia sold $267 million in ADRs in January in a follow-on offering to its domestic sale of $614 million in preferred shares. The bank said proceeds would go to lending and ...

Emerging & Frontier Markets

Foster Becomes CEO At Petrobras

NEWSMAKERS: BRAZIL By Antonio Guerrero Graças Foster, 58, was appointed CEO of Brazil's Petrobras state-controlled oil company in February, becoming the first woman ever to head one of the world's top oil operations. Foster was nominated by ...

Emerging & Frontier Markets

Regional Focus: Latin America

FOR BETTER OR FOR WORSE By Antonio Guerrero While neither Brazil nor Uruguay have any trade pacts aside from Mercosur, Chile and Mexico have many agreements in place. The two strategies have met with varying success. When ...

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SAFEST BANKS IN LATIN AMERICA 2012

Global Finance names the Safest Banks in Latin America: April 2012 NEW YORK, March 1, 2012 Global Finance magazine (...

Awards

WORLD’S 50 SAFEST BANKS 2012

Global Finance announces a half-yearly update World’s 50 Safest Banks: April 2012 NEW YORK, March 1, 2012 Bank stability is...

Emerging & Frontier Markets

Rousseff Declares 2012 A New Era Of Prosperity For Brazil

NEWSMAKERS: BRAZIL By Antonio Guerrero Brazilian president Dilma Rousseff, a former technocrat and Marxist activist, completed her first year in office on January 1 with a 72% approval rating. Rousseff: A pragmatist with no tolerance for corruption ...

Emerging & Frontier Markets

EM News: Mexican Exchange Woos High-Frequency Traders

EMERGING MARKETS INVESTOR: NEWS By Gordon Platt The Bolsa Mexicana de Valores exchange in Mexico City says it will introduce faster trading technology by the middle of 2012 in an effort to attract more high-frequency traders. BMV says ...

Capital Raising & Corporate Finance

EM Regional Review: Latin America

PREPARING FOR THE WORST By Antonio Guerrero Latin American countries are starting to build reserves and diversify economies to brace for a possible global downturn. The question is whether it will be enough to protect the export-driven ...

Emerging & Frontier Markets

Company To Watch: Alfa / Mexico

ALFA GROUP GROWS THROUGH ACQUISITIONS By Gordon Platt Monterrey-based Alfa, one of Mexico’s largest industrial groups, has four business lines, comprising petrochemicals, aluminum auto parts, processed food and telecommunications. Earlier this year it became the sole shareholder ...

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SAFEST EMERGING MARKET BANKS IN LATIN AMERICA 2011

Global Finance names the Safest Emerging Market Banks 2011 in Latin America NEW YORK, November 3, 2011 Global Finance magazine...

Country Report

Country Report: Brazil

SEARCHING FOR BALANCED SOLUTIONS By Antonio Guerrero Investors are awaiting the outcome of recent rate cuts in Brazil. Whether it will prove proactive or premature remains to be seen. Citing a substantial deterioration in the global economy, ...

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Central Banker Report Cards 2011: The Americas

The Americas Argentina Mercedes Marcó del Pont Grade: D When Argentine president Cristina Fernández de Kirchner appointed political ally Mercedes Marcó del Pont to head the central bank in February 2010, there was little hope the move would lead to ...