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May 2008

Banking: US urges financial services development in Latin America

by Chloe Hayward

Senior officials at the US Treasury are urging Latin American countries to pursue policies that will help grow their mortgage markets, despite the sub-prime woes of the US.


"The countries of Latin America need to look for opportunities to make credit and mortgages more readily available"
Anna Cabral, US Treasury

"In the US upwards of 65% of the population are home owners and this is something that countries in Latin America would like," Hank Paulson, US Treasury secretary, told Euromoney during last month’s Inter-American Development Bank meeting in Miami. Paulson’s colleague, Anna Cabral, US treasurer, agrees. "The countries of Latin America need to look for opportunities to make credit and mortgages more readily available," she says.


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