Category: Brazil

Creating an active secondary market for Latin American corporate debt is an old, unfulfilled dream. André Madarás, who heads the proprietary desk and fixed income trading at Brazil’s Banco Itaú, thinks it is possible to change that.

Embratel Hires New Leadership The proud new owner of Brazilian long-distance carrier Embratel Participações has hired Carlos Henrique Moreira as the company’s new president. Telmex, the Mexican telecom giant, announced […]

Citibanker Rejoins CSFB José Olympio Pereira has become managing director and head of investment banking in Brazil at Credit Suisse First Boston. He rejoins CSFB after a six-year stint at […]

Signs of recovery in Brazil are luring deep-pocketed
European investors back to the region, ready to splurge
billions on Latin American companies.

Three buccaneers have made a fortune by handing over Brazil’s AmBev to Belgium’s Interbrew, but few other
shareholders profited much from the deal.

Brazil and Mexico have chosen different approaches to deal with looming electricity shortages. The outcome of their plans will have far-reaching consequences.

The Central Bank of Brazil is the result of a typically Brazilian compromise. It is a quasi-independent department of the Finance Ministry, which means that ultimately it is under political […]

Brazil’s 1998 privatization of Telebras, the state-run phone monopoly, may not have led to a blossoming of competition, low rates and burgeoning innovation, but it has helped the companies that […]

As one would expect, some of the world’s biggest financial firms – Citigroup and Bank of America of the US and London-based HSBC – have subsidiaries in Brazil. Citigroup first opened an […]

A strong, independent media is an important part of any modern democracy, but there is reason to be concerned about the health of Brazil’s publishing and broadcasting industry. The Marinho […]