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 […]
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Peru Pulls in the Private Sector
After a 74-year absence, Peru returned to the international capital markets in February 2002 with a 10-year, $1.42 billion bond. The historic issue signaled a break with the past for […]
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Going Global with Peso Paper
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.
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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 […]
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Mexico’s Starving Cash Cow
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.
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Quenching Corporate Thirst
A 123-year-old Peruvian brewer has become the prize in
a fight to dominate the region’s beer market. The battle involves some of South America’s most powerful families.
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Making Markets Work
Trinidad and Tobago?s embryonic capital markets could
get a much-needed boost, now that the country?s 11-month political stalemate is over.
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Mexico Preps for Fannie Mae
A federal guarantee for a securitization of real
estate development loans is a significant step in Mexico’s
evolution to capital markets-based mortgage
financing.
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A Caribbean Competitor
Securing a free trade agreement with the United States and attracting more foreign investment would add a needed edge to the Dominican Republic’s developing economy.
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Santander’s Tactical Success
An effective mix of aggressive marketing, higher-margin products and a rigorous pursuit of efficiency has enabled Mexico’s Grupo Santander-Serfin to post some impressive results and set it apart from its […]