The period of easily raising funds from abroad seems to be coming to an end for emerging markets around the world. In the new environment of higher interest rates in the US and increased competition for capital flows, portfolio managers are becoming more selective with where they place their money.
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Articles & Analysis | Inclusion in global indices stimulate capital markets activity, but more growth is needed from The Report: Mexico 2019
Articles & Analysis | Increase in premium highlights potential of Mexico's insurance sector from The Report: Mexico 2019
Mexico is very much a multi-risk insurance market. In addition to natural disasters such as earthquakes, active volcanoes, hurricanes and tsunamis, high levels of organised crime in certain parts of the country pose a constant risk to individuals and property. Despite this high potential for growth, the sector’s development has been held back by disappointing economic growth...
Articles & Analysis | Emerging markets respond to retrenchment of overseas banking operations from The Report: Mexico 2019
The three decades before the 2007-08 global financial crisis were marked by the world’s financial networks becoming increasingly interconnected. Financial system regulatory convergence, the growing penetration of World Trade Organisation rules and the creation of currency unions, such as the euro, resulted in a surge in cross-border capital flows. Global banks began to see the...
Articles & Analysis | Mexico's banking reforms aim to boost access to credit from The Report: Mexico 2019
Despite occurring a quarter of a century ago, Mexico’s financial crisis of 1994-95 continues to cast a long shadow over the sector. As consumer and business confidence collapsed, so did bank credit as a share of GDP. Bankers and their regulators adopted and promoted much more conservative lending practices, resulting in many consumers and smaller businesses being locked out of...
Although the sector’s medium-term growth is likely to be impeded by weak economic conditions, the Mexican Association of Insurance Companies forecast that total premium...
Chapter | Capital Markets from The Report: Mexico 2019
After several years of innovation – notably the advent of new investment vehicles and the arrival of a second bourse – alongside the change in government at the end of...