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In an active year for Latin American bank sales, it’s no surprise that Banco Santander Central Hispano’s $3.55 billion purchase of Banespa, the former São Paulo state bank, takes our […]

The development of the oilfields in the Campos Basin 80 kilometers off the coast of Rio de Janeiro State are crucial for Brazil to fulfill its longstanding ambition to become […]

Last August’s equity offering from Petrobras, Brazil’s national oil company, was a landmark event. It was the largest Latin American equity issue ever, and one of the largest anywhere in […]

The winner of the LatinFinance quasi-sovereign bond of the year is the €100 million three-year, fixed rate bond for the city of Buenos Aires, led by Chase Securities. “It was […]

The government sells Banespa to Santander Central Hispano.
The Spanish bank bid $3.58 billion for Banespa, Brazil’s sixth-largest bank. SCH paid over three times more than that the second bid from Brazil’s Unibanco.

President-elect Vicente Fox comes under pressure from Washington to deal with monopolistic Mexican companies.

Latin America, with its low PC penetration, is going wireless. Businesses will need communications architecture that will allow operators to migrate to the new technology without discarding their previous investments.

If e-businesses refuse to provide online live support to website visitors, it is a fact that they will be likely losing customers.

At the center of the global banking market is the “market of one”-the customer.

It’s been a big hit in Japan. Now the mobile Internet is hitting Latin America, where analysts see a potential bonanza for the wireless craze.