Category: Structured Finance

The Andean Development Corporation (CAF) is one of the most effective development agencies serving Latin America. Last year, it disbursed $3.3 billion in loans to clients in the continent’s most […]

An ill-starred diversification plan at Bladex put it in the cross hairs of Argentina’s collapse. But today the trade finance bank is recapitalized and focusing on traditional lending.

When Corporación Andina de Fomento (CAF) decided to issue a euro-denominated bond in 2002, it took on a considerable challenge. Unlike the multilateral’s devoted following of US investors, European investors […]

The Inter-American Development Bank has little to show for the billions of dollars it has pumped into Latin America. But Enrique Iglesias, who has led the IDB for 14 years, defends the bank’s role and revelance.

If there is one financial institution that has held steady through good times and bad in Latin America, it is the Corporación Andina de Fomento (CAF). The firm, which celebrated […]

Banco Latinamericano de Exportaciones SA, the trade finance bank better known as Bladex, is opening an office in São Paulo, adding one in Mexico City and expanding its operations in […]

In his third term as president of the IDB, Enrique Iglesias takes LatinFinance’s Man of the Year award after demonstrating his commitment to the region by supporting economic development, government effciency, social progress and private sector activities.

In the scramble to devise lasting solutions for Brazil’s fiscal troubles, Berkeley professor Barry Eichengreen, IDB chief economist Ricardo Hausmann and Jurgen von Hagen of Indiana University have recently reached […]