What factors helped cause direct investment (FDI) to drop around 18% in 2013?
Peru
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Interviews & Viewpoints | José Antonio Blanco, CEO, BTG Pactual: Interview from The Report: Peru 2015
Chapter | Capital Markets from The Report: Peru 2015
The development of Peru’s capital markets continues apace, driven by the growing number of increasingly sophisticated local institutional investors. Though the Lima Stock Exchange (Bolsa de Valores de Lima, BVL) started 2014 off poorly, with stock prices falling significantly on the gradual withdrawal of monetary stimulus by the US Federal Reserve and the effect of geopolitical tensions...
Articles & Analysis | The banking industry looks set to achieve its full potential in the coming years, outperforming other sectors of the economy from The Report: Peru 2015
With a record of consistent profitability and credit growth, the banking sector has benefitted from economic expansion in the past decade. Strong regulations are credited with having ensured that banks made it through the 2008 global financial crisis relatively unscathed. In 2014, the proposed end of the commodities supercycle, an economic slowdown and the prospect of...
Interviews & Viewpoints | Julio Velarde, Governor, Central Reserve Bank of Peru (BCRP): Interview from The Report: Peru 2015
Interviews & Viewpoints | Carlos González-Taboada, CEO, Scotiabank Peru: Interview from The Report: Peru 2015
Articles & Analysis | The microfinance industry has played an important role in improving social development, despite facing challenges in recent years from The Report: Peru 2015
The centrality of microfinance to Peru’s economy extends beyond its contribution to banking profits, given its role in reducing poverty, accelerating formalisation of the workforce and bringing growth to regions previously beyond the reach of traditional banks. Even so, its development has not been consistently smooth. Some weaker players have been taken over or merged...