While advanced economies generate the vast majority of insurance and reinsurance business, emerging markets are posting higher rates of growth. Complementing this underlying trend is a strong and expanding interest in catastrophic risk, which by nature tends to pertain to emerging markets. This is coming alongside fast-paced, sector-...
How can the participation of retail investors in the market be enhanced, and what are the main challenges to increasing investment?
Like many other emerging economies, financial inclusion is one of the greatest challenges facing Peru. Findings of the World Bank’s 2017 Global Findex, which measures the progress of financial inclusion in 140 countries, highlighted a number of areas that need to be improved if the country’s banking sector is to be successful in penetrating a...
Following project delays caused by a high-profile corruption scandal at Brazil’s construction giant Odebrecht, which rippled across Latin America, the construction sector is at last refinding its financial footing. After nine consecutive months in negative territory, credit to the sector posted 0.56% year-on-year growth in March 2018, to PEN4....
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