Brazil’s big banks have developed an extraordinary ability to thrive in almost any environment.They have lived through inflation, government debt defaults and over half a dozen new currencies in the […]
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Arminio Fraga Interview
When Arminio Fraga speaks, people listen. Or so say those who have watched him, over the last six months, oversee a complete turnaround in Brazil’s monetary policy. After the six- […]
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Visible Hand
Francisco da Costa e Silva, chairman of Brazil’s capital markets watchdog the Comissão de Valores Mobiliarios (CVM), has established himself as a leading promoter of regulatory changes and a modernizer […]
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Banespa Robbery
In the dawn hours of July 5,thieves stole $19.8 million from the state bank of Sao Paulo’s central downtown agency in Brazil’s largest bank heist to date. The ensuing manhunt […]
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Bolstering Bigness
Brazil is not known for its affinity for consolidated corporate control. So the recent bevy of mergers and acquisitions there has come as a surprise to many Brazilians who had […]
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Brazilian Banking
In the past few years, United States and European money managers have launched operations in Brazil, offering institutional and individual investors a level of expertise previously unknown here. These firms, […]
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Bubbling Troubles
It comes down to one question: Are the oil fields in Colombia, a country rich in oil assets, worth the investment to exploit them? Many industry executives are asking themselves […]
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Debt Doldrums
Nineteen ninety seven was a bumper year for Latin America’s syndicated loan market with volumes reaching close to $59 billion. That’s an impressive figure considering it even topped new Latin […]
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Domestic Rifts
The Baianos would say simply that they have more mandinga in the northeastern Brazilian state of Bahia than their amigos in the southern state of Rio Grande do Sul. Mandinga […]
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Embraer Corporate Profile
Soon after Mauricio Botelho took over as CEO of Brazil’s Embraer in September 1995, he hung a photograph of an airplane in the lobby of the corporate office in São […]