The borrower should be benefiting from the pause in US monetary policy tightening, but it hasn’t turned out that way as economic decline takes time to correct.
Lower interest rates point to lower NIMs this year; Growing competition from newly regulated fintech sector will lead banks’ costs to rise.
Q1 2019 data shows severe year-on-year falls in activity; hangover from 2018 blamed: signs of recovery for quarters ahead.
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Protectionism is undermining an otherwise moderate global outlook as growth continues, labour markets tighten and geopolitical crises calm.
After so long, private bank clients and even retail investors are no longer happy with the returns from government bonds; instead, they are searching for yield and pushing up the value of risk assets.
The government is pushing structural reforms despite the economic crisis; new tax regulations aimed to bring money onshore.
There are key differences between the growth outlook for Argentina’s banks today and that of Brazil’s banks from 2003 to 2008.
Monetary policy is now much more effective in Brazil and it’s having some interesting consequences.
The 50th anniversary issues of Euromoney are forcing journalists to take a broader sweep of the issues we cover than the usual month-by-month perspective.
Recoveries, reschedulings, crises and scandal: no region’s financial markets have been as turbulent as Latin America’s over the last five decades.
Of all the global corridors of trade and investment, the one between Latin America and the Middle East is among the least travelled.
Argentina is on a precipice, Venezuela has a humanitarian crisis and Brazil is just exiting its worst-ever recession – so far, so Latin America.
While the region has proved its economic and financial resilience in recent years, it’s time to look ahead and become competitive for whatever the next 50 years will bring, says former Colombia finance minister Mauricio Cárdenas.
After decades of trying, have LatAm’s central bankers finally steadied the ship? Mexico's Agustin Carstens, one of the monetary policy stalwarts of the region, takes stock.
Staying committed to a region where deal flow sometimes stops overnight is tough for an international investment bank.
The region’s leading banks produce some of the best numbers in the global industry, and success in retail banking – and a hard-learned approach to risk management – are core; could the growth of digital banking bring a new era of change?
Since Roberto Setubal became chief executive of Itaú Unibanco in 1994, the bank’s growth has been spectacular – but the next stage is harder to target.
Country risk experts have reservations about a region failing to keep pace, but excluding Argentina and Venezuela from the equation paints a brighter picture.
The country is now in default on almost all of its foreign currency bonds; investors need to think ahead about the debt renegotiation to come.
Multiple positive factors point to outperformance of Brazil’s banks in EM, but pensions reform risks remain.
They aren’t making headlines – for the right reasons.
I can’t seem to stop worrying about Argentina in its election year.
With its focus on SMEs, the bank is well set to grow with the Brazilian economy
Itaú is performing well, but faces challenges in its corporate banking unit.
Santander’s Brazilian bank took lots of deserved acclaim when Santander released its global third-quarter results, but keep an eye on Mexico.
