Venezuela has endured years of tumult, but banco Mercantil has managed to keep growing thanks to strong leadership, well-timed acquisitions and international alliances.
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Citigroup Cultivates the Corporate Crowd
Michael Contreras Citigroup considers itself very much at home in Latin America where it has operated since 1914. Last year, the bank had $50 billion in assets in the region, […]
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Agrícola Positions Itself for Regional Expansion
Banco Agrícola is the biggest bank in El Salvador and remains on the lookout for continued expansion. Its total assets of $2.48 billion at the end of 2000 represented a […]
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Committed to Reform
The president of the CVM, Brazil’s capital market regulatory agency, explains why new legislation will reform the country’s equity markets, improve corporate governance and help minority investors.
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Banco BISA Branches Out to Overcome Challenges
Competition with foreign banks such as Citibank and BSCH’s Banco Santa Cruz have kept Banco BISA, Bolivia’s largest domestically owned bank, on its toes this past year. The bank is […]
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Globalization Gets A Presidential Push
Mexico’s former head of state, Ernesto Zedillo, is fashioning a post-presidential career as an advocate for globalization, international development and social justice.
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Banco Bolivariano Survives the Storm
Miguel Babra Lyon The Ecuadorian banking system collapsed in 1999, and the banks left standing are still reeling from the aftershocks. In July, the Ecuadorian government shut down the country’s […]
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Virtue is Its Own Reward Transparency International, the Berlin-based anti-corruption group, has unveiled its annual rankings of the world’s cleanest countries. Chile is again the least corrupt country in Latin […]
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Banco Bradesco Grows Sharper and More Nimble
Mario Cypriano Banco Bradesco has turned into a more athletic kind of bank in the last year. The bank once scorned by investors for its sluggishness and obsession with size […]
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Passion for Customers Drives Banco Aleman
For more than 40 years, one international bank has shown a degree of dedication to Paraguay that is almost worrying, given the country’s political and economic history. But now Citibank, […]