Category: Regions

Femsa Gulps Down Panamco Femsa Gulps Down Panamco Mexican soft drink company Coca-Cola Femsa in January swooped in to take control of Panamerican Beverages (Panamco), paying $3.6 billion for the […]

To the Hilt Mexico’s four largest, and closely related, telecom companies owe lenders more money than any other private-sector companies in Latin America. Carso Global Telecom, a holding company owned […]

In September 2002, Mexico issued a $1.75 billion, 20-year global bond to exchange a batch of outstanding Brady bonds and raise new money. The government convinced investors to exchange $1.3 […]

Chile and Mexico’s One-Two Punch In early January, Mexico and Chile took advantage of pent up demand for emerging market debt to raise a total of $3 billion in the […]

Bancomext, the Mexican government’s export-import bank, set a new benchmark in November when it issued the first peso issue that can be traded by international investors.

Mexico’s Hot Banks   Mexico is the most active market for mergers and acquisitions in Latin America’s banking industry. The country accounts for half the transactions in the region in […]

Pemex, Mexico’s national energy company, earns billions of dollars a year. But that prodigious wealth is vanishing
because the government has failed to feed its exploration
budget.