Mexico notched up a remarkable number of firsts in the markets last year. It was the first emerging markets borrower to issue bonds with collective action clauses, it retired its […]
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Mexico Launches Another First
Mexico capped a three-year campaign in 2003 to construct an even and long-dated yield curve in the local market when it successfully place a MP$1.19 billion ($108 million) 20-year fixed […]
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Movil Moves Beyond Mexico
América Móvil, Mexico’s biggest cellphone company, blazed a trail across Latin America in 2003, building up a regional network. Armed with a healthy balance sheet and access to low-cost financing […]
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A Sale and a Partnership Derailed
One company is high on ambition. The other is deep in
distress. The owners of Mexico’s top railroad now are feuding over
deal gone bad involving a choice asset.
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Looking Abroad
Mexico’s pension fund managers soon will be able to
invest overseas. Debaters at a LatinFinance conference in November
looked to the future of offshore investing.
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PIONEERING THE EFFICIENT FRONTIER: The Inaugural LatinFinance Mexican Pension Fund Forum
LatinFinance presented the Mexican Pension Fund Forum
as a vehicle for learning and a catalyst for change in the Mexican
markets as new doors are opened for pension fund investments. In
case you missed this event, access the complete speaker
presentations online and exclusive to
www.latinfinance.com.
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Pipelines of Discontent
Bolivians threw out a government over plans to export natural gas. Bolivia and other gas-rich Latin American countries risk forfeiting forever the North American market that is theirs to lose.
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The Bank That Could
BBVA Banco Continental, Peru’s second largest bank, is beginning to catch up with its fiercest rival, Banco de Crédito del Perú. Although locally-owned BCP is the country’s largest bank, Continental […]
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A Gamble, Then Hard Work
Seven years ago, Canada’s Scotiabank took a 10% stake in Inverlat, a Mexican bank laid waste by the 1995 peso crisis. It paid the government, which had taken over Inverlat, […]
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And Then There Was One
Banorte has come a long way in a short time. As Mexico’s last big locally-owned commercial bank, Banorte has its work cut out to compete against giant foreign-owned banks that […]