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Interviews & Viewpoints | OBG talks to Gabriel de Obarrio, CEO, Generali Panama Branch from The Report: Panama 2014
Interviews & Viewpoints | OBG talks to Dino Mon, Director, MAPFRE-Panama from The Report: Panama 2014
Interviews & Viewpoints | OBG talks to Rubens Amaral Jr, CEO, Banco Latinoamericano de Comercio Exterior from The Report: Panama 2014
Articles & Analysis | Regional attraction: International transactions hold much growth potential from The Report: Panama 2014
Like its economy, Panama’s capital markets are highly internationalised. With a dollarised economy and free mobility of capital flows, Panama attracts brokers and financial institutions from other regions that choose the country to carry out their international financial operations, in other words the majority of their business. Another feature...
Articles & Analysis | Numbers game: A rundown of the top players’ recent performance from The Report: Panama 2014
As in any mature banking sector, a small group of large banks dominate the market in Panama. By assets held in the third quarter of 2013, the five largest banks operating in Panama were Banco General, HSBC, Banco Nacional de Panama, Bladex and Bancolombia. Only Bancolombia does not operate in the national banking system (NBS), as it has an...
Articles & Analysis | Making the world go round: A look at the credit picture across the banking sector from The Report: Panama 2014
In the third quarter of 2013, credit was the main component of International Banking Centre (IBC) assets, reaching $62.5bn, 64% of the total. Interest generated by loans was the source of 58% of the IBC’s income from January to September 2013. In 2012 the volume of credit represented 154% of GDP in the IBC and 128% in the national banking system...