Mexico’s capital markets are tightly regulated, but this has not greatly hampered innovation, with a number of new financial products becoming available to investors in recent years. The sovereign bond market has been particularly well developed over the past two decades, while corporate bond issuances have also been increasing, particularly among leading parastatal companies, such as the...
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Chapter | Capital Markets from The Report: Mexico 2017
For more than two decades Mexico’s banking sector has been characterised by sound regulation, high capital adequacy ratios and strong profitability. Having learned from previous experiences, the Mexican banking sector emerged relatively unscathed from the 2008 global financial crisis. Since then, lending growth and profitability have picked up, despite a relatively sluggish economy, as has the...
At a time when a number of major Latin American economies, including Brazil and Venezuela, are heading toward recession, Mexico’s economy stands out in the region for its resilience. Projections for 2017 are couched in more uncertainty than is usual, however, in light of the lack of clarity over and the potential impact of policy changes in the US during the first year in office for US President Donald Trump.
Dubai launched the Middle East, Africa and South Asia (MEASA) region’s first fintech accelerator in January, as efforts to update the legal framework for crowdfunding activities in the financial sector also make headway.
Egypt’s banks are seeing rising profits and robust capitalisation, as evidenced by a flurry of recent releases of FY 2015/16 results from the country’s major banks.
Tanzania’s microinsurers could benefit from strong growth, with some domestic players looking to expand operations and recent pro-consumer reforms expected to support further take-up and deepen insurance penetration.