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  • Thursday, 9 December, 2021
    Nubank
    Nubank shares jump on first day of trading in New York

    Brazilian tech company becomes largest Latin American financial group after IPO

  • Tuesday, 7 December, 2021
    Trade Secrets
    How Uruguay’s trade talks with China threaten Mercosur Premium content

    A pact between Montevideo and Beijing would have broader consequences for Latin America

  • Wednesday, 27 October, 2021
    News in-depthFintech
    How Brazil’s Nubank became a $30bn fintech

    Proposed New York listing of online lender and darling of country’s booming start-up scene will bring greater scrutiny

  • Thursday, 26 August, 2021
    Ecommerce
    South-east Asia’s ecommerce juggernaut Shopee sets sights on Latin America

    Company faces stiff competition from MercadoLibre as it targets the region’s $105bn market

  • Sunday, 27 June, 2021
    News in-depthClimate Capital
    Brazilian meatpackers’ commitment to emissions targets under scrutiny

    Beef industry faces pressure to prove animals do not come from farms engaged in deforestation

  • Tuesday, 4 May, 2021
    WhatsApp Inc
    WhatsApp person-to-person payments return to Brazil

    Facebook-owned messaging app relaunches a year after being blocked by regulators

  • Tuesday, 13 April, 2021
    Americas companies
    FT ranking: The Americas’ Fastest-Growing Companies 2021

    Digital companies dominate, with a fintech lender knocking games maker Niantic off the top spot

  • Wednesday, 23 December, 2020
    News in-depthBrazil
    Corporate Brazil faces reckoning on racism after brutal killing

    Companies that do not take action risk reprisals ranging from boycotts to vandalism

  • Monday, 5 October, 2020
    FT The Americas’ Fastest Growing Companies
    Call for entries: Americas’ Fastest Growing Companies 2021

    Apply for a place in the second FT annual ranking of companies in North, Central and South America

  • Saturday, 6 June, 2020
    News in-depthCannabis industry
    Uruguay cannabis producer sets sights on global dominance

    Silverpeak subsidiary aims to become world’s largest producer of medicinal marijuana by 2025

  • Friday, 5 June, 2020
    Mexico
    Mexicans bet on domestic tourism: ‘The plane was packed, I was surprised’

    Government hopes local travellers will make up for collapse in foreign travel

  • Sunday, 24 May, 2020
    Mexico
    Investors see uncertain future in Mexico

    López Obrador needs foreign money but companies say he keeps changing the rules

  • Friday, 22 May, 2020
    The Top LineMichael Stott
    Mexico president’s reluctance to fly proves contagious

    Reticence of Latin American leaders to help airlines is self-destructive

  • Wednesday, 18 March, 2020
    Argentina
    Farmers’ protests pose challenge to Argentina’s new president

    Alberto Fernández seeks to bolster state coffers with tax raid on country’s most powerful industry

  • Wednesday, 25 December, 2019
    Brazil
    Brazilian football pays penalty as clubs resist reform

    Mismanagement and corruption leave some of nation’s biggest teams on brink of collapse

  • Wednesday, 11 December, 2019
    Commodities
    Latin American producers boosted by weaker domestic currencies

    Price in local currencies of commodities such as copper and coffee has surged

  • Friday, 6 December, 2019
    Brazil
    Brazil’s booming credit markets fan hopes of ‘revolution’

    New York listing of XP highlights transition to a new world of lower interest rates

  • Thursday, 8 August, 2019
    News in-depthPetroleos Mexicanos
    Pemex bonds pique investors’ interest but doubts remain

    Mexican government’s rescue plan for debt-laden state oil group underwhelms

  • Thursday, 18 July, 2019
    LexPetroleos Mexicanos
    Pemex/Mexico: slick solution needed Premium content

    Investors are right to be sceptical of government’s plans to restore oil group’s fortunes

  • Thursday, 4 July, 2019
    Americas economy
    Brazil’s pension reform bill set for crucial first vote

    Proposal successfully passes committee stages on the way to plenary vote

  • Monday, 1 July, 2019
    Iberdrola SA
    Iberdrola chief praises Brazil’s Bolsonaro after Neoenergia IPO

    Ignacio Galán says energy distributor’s listing highlights president’s market-friendly policies

  • Monday, 10 June, 2019
    Special ReportInvesting in Paraguay
    Former foreign policy maverick Paraguay emerges from obscurity

    Once cut off from the world, Asunción is pursuing new diplomatic paths

  • Monday, 10 June, 2019
    Special ReportInvesting in Paraguay
    Ciudad del Este: Paraguay’s gritty frontier city takes industrial path

    Buccaneering centre for business on Brazil border provides haven for outside investors

  • Saturday, 26 January, 2019
    Vale SA
    Death toll rises after Vale dam collapses in Brazil

    Iron ore giant in second disaster in 3 years after mud and waste surges through valley

  • Wednesday, 3 October, 2018
    News in-depthBrazilian politics
    Brazil’s TV titan seen as election kingmaker

    Globo network dominates political debate despite rise of social media

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