Category: Brazil

Brazil needs to invest more than $200 billion in infrastructure. The federal and state governments hope to achieve this through Public-Private Partnerships.

Brazil returns to the European bond market for the first time in two and a half years and finds strong demand among Europe’s growing pool of institutional investors.

Will the lights go out in Latin America? Maybe not, but the prognosis at LatinFinance’s roundtable on infrastructure finance in Brazil, wasn’t hopeful.

Upheaval at Brazil’s Central BankPresident Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva promoted Henrique Meirelles, president of Brazil’s Central Bank, to the cabinet in August as the Brazilian media focused on Meirelles’ […]

Brazilian companies have realized that short-changing their shareholders can be counter-productive. Investors, market regulators and companies are beginning to stamp out abuse.

Brazil’s Central Bank has worked successfully with the country’s private banks to build a new system to monitor lending across the financial markets.

Brazil Pays Up After a five-month absence from the markets, Brazil issued a $750 million five-year floating-rate bond in June, just nine days ahead of the Federal Reserve’s Open Market […]

Creating an active secondary market for Latin American corporate debt is an old, unfulfilled dream. André Madarás, who heads the proprietary desk and fixed income trading at Brazil’s Banco Itaú, thinks it is possible to change that.

Embratel Hires New Leadership The proud new owner of Brazilian long-distance carrier Embratel Participações has hired Carlos Henrique Moreira as the company’s new president. Telmex, the Mexican telecom giant, announced […]

Citibanker Rejoins CSFB José Olympio Pereira has become managing director and head of investment banking in Brazil at Credit Suisse First Boston. He rejoins CSFB after a six-year stint at […]