Capital markets: Jostling for position in Peru

Peru holds promise for capital markets but timing is everything. While pipelines – especially for debt – are growing, banks face a delicate balance between investment risk and reward. Compounding the difficult strategy call is the development of the local independent investment banks in an intra-Andean market.

On a Monday night in early August at a gate in São Paulo’s Guarulhos airport, the priority boarding queue for the evening flight to Lima is conspicuously full of bankers. Most recognizable is Deutsche Bank’s Latin American chief executive, Barnardo Parnes, who declines to state the specific reason for his trip (batting away the question with the observation that the bank’s office has been growing in recent years and is now staffed by about 20 people).

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