Latin America

Latin American start-ups are no longer playing the copycat game, but using new technology to address the region’s unique problems.

Global Finance discusses goals, strategy, and prospects with Banco Agrícola's CFO Ana Beatriz Marin Restrepo.

Headwinds hit currencies in emerging markets.

US-China trade tensions benefit Latin America's commodities and exports.

Miguel Diaz-Canel, the newly elected President of Cuba has a full economic and political agenda, but only some of it is under his control. Some—including the overall business environment—remains under the control of Raul Castro, the country’s former president and ...

Adversity builds resilience: Inured to the region’s perennial issues, Latin American banks keep finding a way to prosper.

Enrique Alvarez, head of Strategy at Santander, talks about the impact of digitization, mobile banking and other groundbreaking technologies being put to work in Latin America.

Global Finance sat down with the CEO of Produbanco to discuss the mounting challenges for Ecuadorian banking.

The rigors of Cuba’s business environment make foreign direct investment a very long-term bet.

Chinese state company's purchase of Chilean lithium-maker would create one company with control of 70% of the world's lithium supply.

A nascent global recovery is improving prospects across Latin America and the Caribbean—albeit unevenly.

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Despite hurricane damage, average economic growth in the Caribbean is expected to top the Latin American average according to the IMF. However, Dominica's GDP is expected to decline and weak growth is likely in Puerto Rico and the U.S. Virgin Islands where pre-existing macroeconomic weaknesses were compounded by storm damage.

Peso volatility and investor caution are likely to linger through the middle of the year.

In this Northern Triangle nation, as elsewhere in Latin America, weighing the risks and rewards of foreign direct investment leads to difficult choices.

Just two of several programs over the past two years have attracted $45 million from local and foreign private inerests and created at least 8,000 jobs.

Overall global FDI declined last year with developed economies seeing a decrease in flows even as developing economies saw an increase.

Latin American countries dominate the top ten rankings of the best places to retire in 2018. 

Turning old violent areas into competitive coffee producers still faces some obstacles.

Meirelles has fed his political ambitions since vacating his position as president of global banking at FleetBoston Financial in 2002, when he retired and returned to the state of Goiás, his homeland. 

Venezuela’s external debt is variously estimated between $120 billion and $143 billion, including as much as $63 billion of foreign bonds.