Category: 2015 July / August

Brazil is reeling from the impact of the country’s biggest ever corruption investigation. Petrobras is in transformation, its new management quickly getting to work shedding assets and grabbing fresh funding. And while the reverberations of Lava Jato have trickled down into the corporate sector, tipping some companies into bankruptcy, new financings for large-scale equipment are still closing. Now, Petrobras must sharply ramp-up production to keep its ambitious deleveraging goals on track — and that hinges on the company and its suppliers accessing new financing. By Katie Llanos-Small

Chile switched up its cabinet, while executives made rounds at Mexican banks and corporates. By Jennifer P. Roig

A risk for Petrobras — and one that is hugely tough to quantify — is the likely cost of legal proceedings against it. Most visibly, US and Brazilian regulators could […]

Normalizing trade and financial relations with the rest of the world should be a priority for Argentina, and will set the sovereign on the path to investment grade, says Carlos Melconian

A little-used export financing wrap is set to boom as BNDES takes a step back from lending. By Sara Rosner

Energy transportation companies and the world’s largest investment firms are eager to play leading roles in the development of Mexico’s pipeline network as the country focuses on natural gas in a bid to fuel economic growth. By Eduardo García