Interview with Facundo Vázquez, Head of Latin America ECM at Goldman Sachs
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Q2.2021 outlook: Debt
Interview with Reggie de Villiers, Head of Latin America Debt Origination and Structured DCM at UBS
Race to the Sun
Will ambition and sunshine be enough to realize Chile’s hydrogen dream?
Six questions for Martha Seillier Special Secretary of the Investment Partnership Program
The Investment Partnership Program (PPI) is spearheading an ambitious government agenda of privatizations and concessions auctions of key infrastructure and is expanding into social services, but with mixed results
BNDES considers its role after COVID-19
Brazil’s national development bank is using the COVID-19 pandemic to double down on its privatization agenda and ongoing reforms of the state-owned lender, says CEO Gustavo Montezano
Stitching Latin America closer together
The Inter-American Development Bank’s new president joined the multilateral lender not without some controversy. Mauricio Claver-Carone tells LatinFinance in an interview about his agenda to boost capital for bigger lending plans and a bigger involvement of the United States in the region
Will mining boom bust the ESG-finance renaissance?
Demand is up for metals as stimulus money pumped into economies to counteract the COVID-19 pandemic has companies looking under every rock for sought after minerals. Will the new found demand bulldoze or bolster increased requirements for investing with environmental, social and governance criteria?
In sickness and in health, M&A carries on
The shock of the global pandemic lasted only so long in the world of finance. Mergers and acquisitions activity in Latin America was blunted in 2020 as deal making went virtual, by and large, but activity began to pick up by the second half
Banks: The digital shakeup
The advance of fintechs over the past few years has forced Latin America’s banks to close branches and invest in digital technology, a transformation sped up by the COVID-19 pandemic as more people bank and pay online.
