Latin America: Boom times for investment banks

One of the main reasons why investment banks are focusing more of their efforts on alternative areas, such as principal finance, structured finance and real estate finance, is because these are high-margin products. One of the big trends over the past three years has been the diminishing value of traditional debt capital markets business, especially sovereign deals, even as investment banking services to the region become more lucrative.

How Latin investment banking just got bigger

Net revenues for investment banks in Latin America in 2006 were up by more than 30% on the previous year, according to Dealogic. Net revenues from all public deals in equities, debt, loans and M&A reached $1.37 billion in 2006 (see table below) compared with $1.04 billion in 2005. These figures are in stark contrast to those for 2002/04, when average net revenues for each year were just $639 million.

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