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OMNi, a fast-growing new fintech ‘super app’, is challenging the region’s poorly performing traditional banks. As it brings financial services to the masses it will create opportunities for investors…
Brazil has been hit harder by coronavirus than almost any other country on earth. But as the true cost of its pandemic response becomes apparent there are hopeful signs of reform, writes Adam Patterson in Curitiba...
Amlo's austerity continues in Mexico's 2021 budget, with frugal public spending despite the worst economic contraction in living memory. We investigate if the country is heading for another debt crisis...
Argentina and Ecuador, Latin America’s two serial defaulters, have once again concluded a massive restructuring of their public debt. Boutique investment bank, BancTrust & Co. analyses the impact for investors in the region…
Latin America has taken a bigger economic hit from Covid-19 than any other region, forcing its governments to assume dangerous levels of debt. The last time that happened it ended in the disastrous ‘lost decade’ of the 1980s. We explore if it is heading towards another debt crisis…
Control Risks explores what the end of 16 years of PLD rule and the election of the pro-investment Luis Abdinar, means for international investors in the DR...
Ecuador’s largest city has controlled Latin America's most devastating Covid-19 outbreak. With life there returning to some semblance of normality we investigate the lessons for investors elsewhere in the region...
Despite being one of Latin America’s poorest countries, Paraguay has managed the pandemic well, with few deaths so far. But Paraguay was embarking on structural reforms when coronavirus hit and now they are more vital than ever…
Latin America's largest economy treads a narrow path between protecting businesses hit by Covid-19 and managing debt levels, writes Adam Patterson in Curitiba…
The region's big six economies - Brazil, Mexico, Argentina, Colombia, Chile and Peru - have made big strides in improving democracy and reducing inequality in recent years. However, social unrest will continue to impact international investors in the region over the next decade...
The region has seen record-high portfolio outflows, falling commodity prices and the sudden stop of external financing and economic activity. Boutique investment bank, BancTrust & Co. analyses Covid-19’s impact for investors in the region…
Coronavirus has dealt a severe blow to Latin America's economic prospects in 2020. The disease, and efforts to contain it, are already starting to take a heavy toll on the region’s economies, writes Andrew Harker, Economics Director, Economic Indices, IHS Markit...
Some countries are handling the Covid-19 pandemic well, while others are already failing to protect their people, especially the poor. We compare health systems in Brazil, Chile, Cuba and Venezuela to see how they will cope…
With hospitals at breaking point and dead bodies left rotting in the street – Guayaquil is a warning to the rest of Latin America, writes our Ecuador correspondent…
The $2.5billion issue was three times oversubscribed and was the first sovereign paper by any Latin American government since January. It paves the way for other countries in the region to raise much-needed cash to fight coronavirus...
Luis Felipe López-Calva, UN Assistant Secretary-General and UNDP Regional Director for Latin America and the Caribbean, examines how Covid-19 will impact the economic relationship between China and Latin America…
From curfews in Ecuador to mass music meets in Mexico – Latin American countries have taken very different approaches to handling coronavirus. We look at some of the consequences for the region...
2019 was a record year for Brazilian mining royalties. Most of that increase came from its world-leading iron ore mines but in 2020 the focus will increasingly be on the country's precious metals...