One company is high on ambition. The other is deep in distress. The owners of Mexico’s top railroad now are feuding over deal gone bad involving a choice asset.
The country has regained the confidence of investors and but Brazil still faces considerable challenges that the markets have ignored for too long.
Brazil’s trade and industry minister has been in the job barely a year and already has something to show for his time in government. But Luiz Furlan still has much to do before the country emerges as a major trading nation.
Mexico’s pension fund managers soon will be able to invest overseas. Debaters at a LatinFinance conference in November looked to the future of offshore investing.
Brazil’s President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva has achieved a lot in his first year in office. His reform agenda next year promises to be as challenging as it has been in 2003.
Money is moving into Latin American technology ventures in Brazil. But entrepreneurs and their backers still face considerable odds.
Brazil’s Banco Bradesco locked in its lowest rate ever in a subordinated debt issue. More banks are lining up to follow Bradesco into a market hungry for Brazilian risk.
China has become one of Brazil’s biggest trading partners, driven by its voracious demand for commodities. Bankers are benefiting.
LatinFinance presented the Mexican Pension Fund Forum as a vehicle for learning and a catalyst for change in the Mexican markets as new doors are opened for pension fund investments. In case you missed this event, access the complete speaker presentations online and exclusive to www.latinfinance.com.
Ricardo Handley personifies the wheeling and dealing that characterized Argentina in the 1990s. Now, after years in obscurity, he is back in the public eye.
Under the command of Roberto Setúbal, Brazil's Banco Itaú has moved into a league of its own. Itaú is the most profitable and most valuable bank in Latin America.
LatinFinance's inaugural Brazil Conference, held in September in Rio de Janeiro, attracted a star-studded cast of speakers from academia, the private sector and the federal government.
Bolivians threw out a government over plans to export natural gas. Bolivia and other gas-rich Latin American countries risk forfeiting forever the North American market that is theirs to lose.
The Mexican cellular operator has gobbled up competitors in South America in a bid to be a top player in every market where it operates.
Argentina extracted a favorable deal from the IMF but its victory could be short-lived if the country fails to address critical policy weaknesses.
Relatively unknown by investors outside of its home region, LanChile is growing and profitable at a time when the world's mightiest airlines have faltered.
Pedro Aspe, the former Mexican finance minister who resurrected the country's finances in the late 1980s, raises money for small- to medium-sized companies starved of capital.
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The most pressing issue is related to guaranteeing this growth of the system, the savings. We have to guarantee that this growth is followed by better asset managers on the side of the Afores.
Carlos Ramírez, Mexico’s pension regulator, Consar
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