Despite its solid performance amid uncertain macroeconomic conditions, Mexico’s banking system has lagged behind in its ability to increase the availability of financial services across the country. To address this, the authorities have recently approved a number of regulatory changes to structure the provision of IT-based financial services....
Mexico’s banking industry enjoys high capital adequacy ratios and is benefitting from robust profit margins. While some stakeholders have pointed to the sector’s conservative approach as a reason for the slow progress in increasing penetration levels, the sector is in fact expanding financial services to a broader share of the population. Relative to the size of the Mexican economy, the...
The stable growth of the Mexican economy and the low level of insurance penetration in the country are likely to continue to drive growth in the sector over 2018 and 2019. In the absence of further natural disasters the loss ratio of insurers, which rose following the 2017 earthquakes, can be expected to stabilise in 2018. Nevertheless, the rise in incidents of car theft will likely require...
While corporate bond issuances have only expanded at a moderate rate, Mexico’s sovereign bond market has long been a central component of the bourse’s activity, attracting a growing volume of foreign players. An assortment of new structured products launched over recent years has helped channel market investment towards infrastructure development in areas such as transport and energy. Despite...
Driven by an ongoing process of economic opening since the 1990s, Mexico has established a solid macroeconomic base. Structural reforms have improved the country’s trade flows, helped to soften the impact of a gradual slowdown in hydrocarbons production and exports, and enabled manufacturing-led economic diversification and regional integration.
Increased government spending and higher oil prices are set to drive growth in Kuwait’s banking sector, with increased profits and liquidity supporting a recent rebound in activity.
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