President Vicente Fox ended 71 years of rule by the Institutional Revolutionary Party with his election last year, but he has yet fully to break the mold of Mexican politics.
Category: Mexico
Business & Banking
ING Moves into Mexico’s Insurance MarketING Group, the Netherlands-based financial services company, agreed to buy a 45.2% stake in Seguros Comercial América from Savia, the troubled Mexican conglomerate. The $791 […]
Pemex Repositions its Risk
A recent bond issue by the Mexican national oil company proves that it is parting ways with other emerging debt markets issuers, a trend that investors support.
Sovereign Report
Mexican Brady Buy Back Mexico reopened its $1.5 billion, 10-year global bond offering in May, first launched January 8. The opening was for $1 billion and the proceeds were used […]
Business & Banking
Citigroup’s Mammoth Mexican Play Citigroup agreed in mid-May to purchase Mexico’s Grupo Financiero Banamex-Accival, the parent company of Banamex, the country’s second-largest bank, for $12.5 billion. Citigroup’s tender offer for […]
Citigroup’s Latin Platform
The purchase of one of Mexico’s most successful banks has transformed Citigroup into the largest private sector financial institution in Latin America with $49 billion assets in the region.
Mexico’s Capital Connection
For 36 years, Raúl Muñoz worked in relative obscurity at the Mexican division of a major U.S. chemical company, rising through the ranks to become president of the subsidiary. Then […]
The Brave New World of Corporate Governance
Ricardo Salinas Pliego, the Mexican business leader, has become a target for shareholder rights activists. Here, he gives his side of the story and sets out the far-reaching changes in corporate governance at his group of companies, which includes TV Azteca and the Elektra retail chain.
Business & Banking
Telmex Spins Off International AssetsMexico’s largest telecommunications company, Telmex, spun off its wireless and international holdings into a new company América Móvil in an offering on the New York Stock […]
