Latin America

A Latin America fintech pioneer since the early 2000s, Mercado Pagohas enjoyed robust growth tied to the recent surge in digital banking. 

Brazil is striving to become Latin America's fintech hub.

Latin America's debt markets are heating up and going green.

Alberto Calderón brings with him experience in government and Colombia's mining sector.

Puerto Rico recently received long-delayed funds to rebuild its infrastructure and economy, both having been hammered by storms as well as the recent global pandemic. Manuel Cidre Miranda, a longtime entrepreneur and businessman who became secretary of Puerto Rico’s Department of Economic Development and Commerce in January, talks about recovery, rebuilding and lessons the island has learned from past experience about how to spend wisely for long-term resilience.

Can reserve currency status be far behind?

Covid-19 caused banks to sprint to digitalization, but the transformational journey is long and ongoing.

Private banking continues to thrive in the devastated Latin American economy.

As leader of a nation marred by deep political divisions and devastated by the coronavirus epidemic, Guillermo Lasso faces monumental challenges.

Argentina is strengthening its tech sector to attract new investment, but political uncertainty remains a deterrent.

Retail e-commerce jumped 36.7% in 2020, to $84.9 billion in sales throughout the region in 2020 driven by the pandemic and lockdowns.

With tourism struggling and fiscal troubles looming, Central America and the Caribbean see commodities and tech as economic lifelines.

Struggling to control Covid-19 and obtain vaccines, Latin American governments are hoping commodities exports will pull them through.

Some of the most venerable institutions among this region of island nations are thriving in spite of the Covid-19 crisis.

Ricardo Cuesta Delgado, Produbanco CEO, talks about how the bank is protecting Ecuador’s Amazonian populations during the pandemic and extending its digital services to benefit all of its customers.

Sagasti’s first order of business will be restoring trust in government. 

The December power transmission  auction will be the first launched by the Brazilian government in 2020. 

Central America and the Caribbean won’t revert to normal post-Covid. Digitization, diversification and infrastructure investment are contributing to a regional transformation.

Julio Velarde, chairman of the Central Reserve Bank of Peru, talked to Global Finance about the impact of Covid-19 and expectations for the future.

It has been Global Finance’s practice to conduct a Best Bank award ceremony during the IMF and World Bank Annual Meetings. As this year’s Meetings have gone virtual, so will Global Finance’s awards ceremony. Below are a selection of winners ...