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Category: Corporate & Sovereign Strategy
Easing Seizing Rules
Mexico undertakes an overhaul of bankruptcy and loan guarantee laws to reactivate lending.
Insured Bonds on the Rise?
Latin American corporates are still having trouble accessing the international capital markets. Adding a default guarantee to asset-backed deals may be one way to attract investors.
Rapid Returns
Technology investments help companies cope with growth and change, and prepare for more of both.
Embraer Corporate Profile
Soon after Mauricio Botelho took over as CEO of Brazil’s Embraer in September 1995, he hung a photograph of an airplane in the lobby of the corporate office in São […]
Vaulting the Bluffs
Brazil’s big banks have developed an extraordinary ability to thrive in almost any environment.They have lived through inflation, government debt defaults and over half a dozen new currencies in the […]
Visible Hand
Francisco da Costa e Silva, chairman of Brazil’s capital markets watchdog the Comissão de Valores Mobiliarios (CVM), has established himself as a leading promoter of regulatory changes and a modernizer […]
Deals of the Year 2014 Winners
Astute decision making became more important in 2014 as investor concern about emerging markets grew, Mexico’s reforms took shape and Brazil’s elections paused deals.
