ING Sells Mexican InsurerGrupo Financiero BBVA-Bancomer, Mexico’s largest financial group, bought out ING Groep’s stakes in three financial services companies for $693 million. ING, the largest financial services company in […]
Category: Regions
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Under New Management
Panama struggles to remain Central America’s financial and transportation center despite growing international doubt about its commitment to playing by the rules.
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Latin America’s Best Bank
It has paid back the government and assembled capital reserves way ahead of schedule. Now Mexico’s Banamex is at the top of its game as the country moves beyond the peso crisis.
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Sovereign Report
Mexico Weighs In Mexico returned to the Japanese market in September with a ¥50 billion four-year Samurai deal, five months after issuing a five-year, ¥50 billion Samurai in April. This […]
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Taxing Challenges Facing Fox
Mexico’s business community is excited about Vicente Fox’s historic presidential victory. But the outcome of his proposed fiscal reforms, guided by a former World Bank official, could dull the political mood.
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Tech Stocks Tank
There is blood everywhere in the tiny market of Latin American new technology start ups. Like their big cousins in the US and Europe, the region’s small band of Internet […]
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Archive: Trouble in the Andes
Venezuela and Colombia have become two of the most dangerous places to do business in Latin America. Their financial systems are in disarray. Venezuela’s Hugo Cháves and Colombia’s Andrés Pastrana are taking starkly different approaches to dealing with their countries’problems.
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Colombia’s Growth Industry
Kidnapping has become one of Colombia’s most common forms of serious crime, with a record 3,100 cases reported in 1999. Human rights campaigners say they expect even more cases this […]
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A Universal Exchange
National stock exchanges are teaming up to offer investors round-the-clock trading and a single pool of global liquidity. The Sao Paulo and Mexico City bolsas are on board, but would they really benefit?