In one fell swoop, HSBC has become a large Central American bank through its purchase of Panamanian financial powerhouse Banistmo.
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Mini Multi-Latinas
Just as large Latin American companies have spread their wings in neighboring markets, the region’s small- and mid-sized companies are hoping to expand as well.
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Standing Alone
After years of heavy investment, Brazil’s state-controlled oil company, Petrobras, is supplying all of the country’s oil needs.
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Asian Fever & Chills
Asian individual investors are a rich new financing source for Latin American credits as wealth continues to build in the East.
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Of Dragons & Elephants
China’s growing influence on Latin America has, to some extent, overshadowed the rise of another emerging market giant in the East: India. By Javier Santiso*
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Stepping Out
The island of Curaçao is shoring up economic plans for its pending departure from the Netherlands Antilles, with tourism and energy to be pillars of its autonomy.
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Borrow Now, Repent Later
Effective methods for collecting delinquent payments from consumers can mark the difference between profits and labors lost in Latin America.
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People
Sandy Flockhart Flockhart Spreads His Wings At HSBCSandy Flockhart, president of HSBC México, is to get broader regional management responsibility from October 1 to become group managing director and president, Latin America and the Caribbean, and a member of the group management board. At the same time, HSBC is to move its managing director for […]
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United We Lend
Local Caribbean banks from the windward side of the basin are banding together to compete in a rapidly changing regional marketplace.
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Changing for the Better
Our first sustainability ranking for major Latin American countries threw up some interesting and counter-intuitive results.