November / December 2015

Corporate & Sovereign Strategy Bonds

The dramatic fall in copper prices has had widespread ramifications for Chilean companies’ strategies. One bank is leaping at the new opportunities the economic changes b...

Corporate & Sovereign Strategy Bonds

Strong client relationships and synergies with its parent group have propelled this investment bank in the past year

Corporate & Sovereign Strategy Bonds

From small beginnings, this microfinance lender has grown its customer base across Colombia

Corporate & Sovereign Strategy Bonds

The regional lender has increased its loan disbursements already this year, and expects further demand as weak growth takes hold in Latin America

Corporate & Sovereign Strategy Bonds

Despite a weak economy and state competition, the lender is beefing up its transaction services offerings

Corporate & Sovereign Strategy Bonds

The biggest bank in this Caribbean country posted strong growth in profits without losing focus on customer services

Corporate & Sovereign Strategy Bonds

A standout lender and issuer proves global investors want exposure even in a lethargic country

Corporate & Sovereign Strategy Bonds

The island’s largest bank is growing customers through technology and boosting profits through efficiencies

Corporate & Sovereign Strategy Bonds

By embracing international connections and standards, the bank stakes out a path to stability and growth

Corporate & Sovereign Strategy Bonds

This Caribbean lender is aggressively pursuing an inorganic strategy for expansion

Corporate & Sovereign Strategy Bonds

A diversified product offering in Brazil’s capital markets sets this investment bank apart from its peers

Corporate & Sovereign Strategy Bonds

The Mexican investment bank has worked on some of the country’s most important equity and debt transactions

Corporate & Sovereign Strategy Bonds

Amid new banking legislation, the country’s largest lender outperformed

Corporate & Sovereign Strategy Bonds

With a broad regional presence, this bank is taking advantage of changes to Central America’s financial services industry

Corporate & Sovereign Strategy Bonds

Success in 2015 comes from two seemingly disparate strategies: combining a conservative portfolio with investing in technology to simplify the consumer’s experience

Corporate & Sovereign Strategy Bonds

The Ecuadorian lender maintains a diversified pool of funding sources

Corporate & Sovereign Strategy Bonds

This institution has grown market share among both retail and corporate clients. Next on its agenda: its own IPO

Corporate & Sovereign Strategy Bonds

A deep dive into retail banking, counterbalanced with a move into the corporate capital markets, positions this bank for regional expansion

Corporate & Sovereign Strategy Bonds

As Paraguay’s economy is hit by low commodity prices and troubles in Brazil, one bank has managed to keep expanding

Corporate & Sovereign Strategy Bonds

Uruguay’s dominant bank grabbed a bigger share of the country’s consumer banking market as the country’s economic growth stagnates

Corporate & Sovereign Strategy Bonds

Argentina’s stressed financial situation has made life tough for the banking sector, but one lender stands out for maintaining a solid balance sheet

Corporate & Sovereign Strategy Bonds

By focusing on client satisfaction and innovation, the lender has cemented its leadership in the Colombian financial sector

Corporate & Sovereign Strategy Bonds

Following its parent company’s strategies of streamlining and attention to customers, this bank is growing quickly and catching up to its bigger competitors

Corporate & Sovereign Strategy Bonds

Efficiency rules for this lender, giving it the edge over competitors in a difficult economy

Corporate & Sovereign Strategy Bonds

As international lenders retreat from Central America, one local bank is aggressively seizing the opportunity to gain market share

Corporate & Sovereign Strategy Bonds

Business diversification is proving the key to resilience in a difficult Brazilian market

Corporate & Sovereign Strategy Bonds

In a tough year, the winner upped its customer-service quotient and took efficiencies across the board

Bonds

The leading financial institutions of Latin America and the Caribbean say a focus on efficiency and fresh technology has kept them ahead of the pack in a difficult year f...

Bonds

Venture capital or participation from angel investors is often the initial hurdle for a start-up to get off the ground. For LatAm’s tech firms, attracting such equity ca...

Bonds

The co-founder and managing partner of Angel Ventures Mexico spoke to LatinFinance about the role of venture capital and angel investors in Latin America.

Bonds Interviews

Bancolombia’s vice president for SME and consumer lending discusses how traditional banks are set to change with the tech revolution

Bonds

Latin America and the Caribbean are proving ripe for an overhaul of traditional banking models, as technology opens the way for safer credit to small and medium sized com...

Bonds

Lenders are turning to new pools of data and fresh analysis techniques as they rethink the creditworthiness of small and medium-sized enterprises. By Lucien Chauvin

Bonds

The head of Peru’s banking regulator, the SBS, talks to LatinFinance about the risks of transformations to the financial industry

Bonds

Individual investors hunting for returns are finding a growing array of peer-to-peer lending opportunities as Latin America’s SMEs turn to crowdfunding for growth capital...

Bonds

Investment banks make strategic moves in structured finance, while a former central banker lands at a commercial bank. By Patrick Ferguson

Bonds

MSCI kept Peru’s stock exchange in its emerging market index in September, but will re-evaluate a switch to frontier market status next year. Christian Laub sets out the ...

Bonds

As companies come to grips with the Petrobras fallout, their legal advisors are preoccupied with governance. By Andrew Short

Bonds

Borrowers are finding significant liquidity and attractive terms, as lenders look to put capital to work in a quiet market. By Jennifer P. Roig

Bonds

Borrowers and financiers are encountering a diverse, developing set of funding resources. LatinFinance convened a group of leading project sponsors and bankers to discuss...

Bonds

For Argentine companies and international investors, the potential upsides to a win for Macri are huge.

Bonds

As Latin American governments look to infrastructure development to boost growth over long and short term horizons, they are finding that traditional sources of capital a...

Bonds

Latin American sovereigns lead the way for primary issuances from the region, as deal flow thins before the holidays. By Patrick Ferguson

Bonds Corporate & Sovereign Strategy

Rapidly advancing banking software is increasingly opening the door to cross-border retail services. But compliance risks still cast a shadow over the industry’s growth....

Bonds Corporate & Sovereign Strategy

As Latin Americans take to online banking, Brazil is scoring records for the wrong reasons. By Patrick Ferguson

Bonds Corporate & Sovereign Strategy

As the international contingent pulls out, competition builds between homegrown banks for regional market share. IT innovation is proving a critical element to winning o...