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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Putting on the Polish
Mexico’s dominant telecommunications company, Teléfonos de México (Telmex), firmly established itself as a polished, global issuer when it placed three-quarters of its $1 billion five-year bond with US high-grade investors […]
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Putting Receivables to Work
Asset-backed bonds, especially those backed by future flows, have become popular among private sector issuers in Mexico. But Comisión Federal de Electricidad (CFE), Mexico’s federal electricity monopoly, in April became […]
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Slow and Steady Won the Race
A decade ago, the Coca-Cola Company designated several companies as Latin America’s anchor bottlers. One was Mexico’s Coca-Cola Femsa and the other was Panama-based Panamerican Beverages. The companies quickly became […]
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Sticky Money for Mexico
Mexican public credit officials and investment bankers from Citigroup and Deutsche Bank crisscrossed Europe last May and detected demand among institutional investors for a large, liquid, non-dollar global benchmark bond. […]
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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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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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Regional Reach
Royal Bank of Trinidad and Tobago (RBTT) has been shaping the Caribbean’s banking industry for more than a century. However, it is only within the last 15 years that it […]