Luis Moreno Ocampo is president of Transparency International for Latin America and the Caribbean and served as a prosecutor in the trials against the Argentine juntas. He is a partner of Moreno Ocampo & Wortman Jofre, a professor at the University of Buenos Aires and currently visiting professor at Stanford. Here, he talks about corruption and the rule of law in Latin America and the forces that are bringing about change in the region.
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The battle for Brazil
With few major Brazilian mandates available, investment banks are scrambling to innovate.
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Capital Blight
The tremendous scarcity of capital and the limitations of the local equity markets in Brazil have prevented the country from successfully expanding its corporate sector.
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It’s the Law that Counts
Latin America is a region ripe with investment opportunities, but also one bedeviled with perils. The future of Latin America’s largest economies; Argentina, Mexico and Brazil, is looking uncertain. Yet […]
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The Cost of a Strong Peso
The Mexican peso is one of the few currencies to have risen in value against the dollar this year. That is a major psychological boost for Mexico but it’s wreaking havoc on its competitiveness.
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September 2001
Argentina once outpaced the rest of Latin America but its
problems have become so severe that its worsening economic
problems could affect the rest of the region.
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Caught in the Middle
Banorte is too big to be a regional player and too small to be a truly national bank. Its management has just one goal in mind.
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Learning to Live in a Competitive Market
Retail banking in Mexico used to be a simple business. That has changed as interest rates collapse and foreign banks buy up more of the country’s banks
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The search for efficiency
Through regulatory changes and product diversification, the Brazilian Futures Exchange is becoming a major player in the global markets.
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Contagion or isolation?
Octavio de Barros, Banco Bilbao Vizcaya Brasil’s chief economist, considers the effects of the Argentine crisis on Brazil.