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Global X and the lure of niche exposures
A strong emphasis on providing market access and unique exposure lies at the core of exchange-traded funds provider Global X Funds. Chief executive Bruno del Ama tells Sarah Nowakowska about the company’s...
Atlas One Financial Group is a Miami-based broker-dealer serving a predominantly Latin American audience. Tapping into the risk appetite of these investors has been the basis of a fast-growing structured...
Santander protects the value of its growing Brazilian business with a huge hedging programme that leaves its counterparties long the real. That became a source of intense pain when the currency fell like...
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New horizons in Latin America: market overview
As uncertainty in developed countries continues, the emerging markets of Latin America offer increasingly attractive investment prospects. But market idiosyncrasies mean that establishing and building up a structured products business in this region comes...
Gap Consultares overcomes Uruguay's capital market constraints
Operating a structured products business in a country where there is no capital market brings certain difficulties but Uruguayan financial services company Gap Consultares has risen to the challenge and developed a business for institutional and private...
COE discussions herald onshore structured products market in Brazil
The Brazilian market has long promised to be a hallowed land for structured products in Latin America. Yet it remains all but impossible to issue products onshore. As the promise of new rules that will enable onshore issuance nears, Mark Pengelly reports...
Latin America special report: intro
Brazil is set to pass new laws that will allow the issuance of local currency-denominated structured products onshore.
Energy Risk Editor's letter: Speculators not to blame
Vermont senator Bernie Sanders unleashed a furore last month when he posted confidential US Commodity Futures Trading Commission data on his website showing the names and aggregate positions levels of more than 200 companies trading crude oil, heating...
Life insurance experiences growth in Latin America; risk-based oversight...
Life insurance is the fastest growing sector in several Latin American insurance markets. Alex Davis reports on the product mix in the region and, with regulators long-since realising that such growth requires a move towards more risk-based systems of...
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