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Straight-through processing, or STP, is fueling growth in global trading and is no longer optional if emerging
markets want to play in the big leagues.
Three years after the government pension plan overhaul, new financial regulations are helping Mexicans discover non-traditional ways to plan for their economic futures.
Mexico’s first privatization in years is an IPO for a company that manages Cancún’s transportation gateway, in a deal that gives minority investors a new corporate role.
In LatinFinance’s first-ever awards for investment banks, four houses have demonstrated outstanding expertise. Merrill Lynch is recognized as the best equity house. Salomon Smith Barney and Goldman Sachs tie for best debt house. And Morgan Stanley wins in the M&A category. They and the investment banking industry as a whole are
looking forward to rising fees in Latin America after several thin years.
Latin equity issues in the US during the 1990s raised $37 billion and gave investors access to a larger, more liquid market. This year?s issuance may be the strongest yet.
With a tradition of stashing money outside the country and a feeble economy at home, Argentines are wary of investing locally. The government and mututal fund companies have a tough sell ahead.
In the 86 years since Citibank opened its first Latin American branch in Buenos Aires, the bank has created the best integrated, and surely the most profitable, banking network in […]
Dollarization is beginning to make a comeback. Floating exchange rate regimes are the dominant fashion in Latin America, but there is still a lot to be said for universal dollarization […]
It has paid back the government and assembled capital reserves way ahead of schedule. Now Mexico’s Banamex is at the top of its game as the country moves beyond the peso crisis.
Argentina’s Tax Revenues Track Industrial Output Argentina, like many Latin American countries, has trouble collecting adequate tax revenues. Evasion is widespread in spite of repeated efforts to clamp down on […]
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