Category: Brazil

In July 1998, the Brazilian capital markets were buzzing with activity. The outcome of the largest privatization in Latin American history was about to be made public. Telecomunicações Brasileiras (Telebras), […]

Argentine-born Guillermo Jasson, Morgan Stanley’s head of investment banking for Brazil and the Southern cone, bristles with intensity and energy. He is building Morgan Stanley into a leader in corporate […]

In a long career in business, finance and government in Brazil, Francisco Gros has always stood out as a patrician and something of a patriot in a country that tends […]

ABN Amro Buys Sudameris Italy’s Banca Intesa finally sold its Brazilian subsidiary Banco Sudameris Brasil to ABN Amro Holding of the Netherlands in April, for R$2.29 billion ($741.5 million) in […]

Rebuilidng Brazil’s capital markets requires a good dose of public confidence. But that can only be achieved with a stable economy, plus more modest inflation and interest rates.

Banco do Brasil, the state-owned bank, is in top form and higly profitable. Now, under new management, Brazil’s biggest bank needs to convince the markets that it still means business.

After seeing many of the international banks quit Brazil, locally owned banks are firmly back in command of South America’s biggest financial services market.

Government Appoints Bank Executive In January Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva appointed Cássio Casseb to the country’s most important banking job as president of Banco do Brasil. The […]

State-owned Banco do Brasil may be the largest bank in Brazil, but it is no slow-moving behemoth. It reaffirmed its reputation for innovation in the capital markets when it became […]

By buying local competitor BBA Creditanstalt, Brazil’s
second-largest private sector bank substantially grows its assets
and gains the talent inside a well-run wholesale
franchise.