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Top banks: ranked by assets as of December 31, 2004.(Illustration)
Top Banks Ranked by assets as of December 31, 2004 RANK 2004 2003 INSTITUTION COUNTRY 1 1 Banco do Brasil Brazil 2 2 . . .

Growth formula: foreign superbanks look for new opportunities as free trade kicks into high gear.
For more than three years, General Electric Consumer Finance--part of gigantic U.S. industrial, media and financial conglomerate General Electric (GE)--circled over the world's emerging markets, . . .

Winners & losers.(banking industry)(Illustration)
WINNERS & LOSERS Scorecard of who's news in the bank rank Percent change 2004 vs. 2003 ASSETS (% CHANGE '04/'03) HSBC BANK CHILE 145 BANCO AZTECA, MEXICO . . .

Yes, we're open.(Argentina)(Banco de la Ciudad de Buenos Aires)(Brief Article)
It seems Argentina is finally well on its way along the road to recovery. After an economic implosion in 2002, businesses are opening their doors again and banks are there to lend. Banco de la . . .

Boom towns: home financing in Mexico is on the rise as interest rates fall--driving deals among banks, too.
For 30-year-old Mexican Noberto Villalobos, 2004 was a very good year. After saving up some money over the last four years, Villalobos noticed that the Mexican real-estate market was attractive . . .

Loan ranger.(Geraldo Carbone)(Interview)
As president of BankBoston in Brazil, Geraldo Carbone has held since 1997 the same spot that once belonged to Henrique Meirelles, now the president of Brazil's Central Bank. Traditionally serving . . .

The captain.(Vittorio Corbo, economist)(Interview)
It's understood that fiscal transparency and discipline has been a pillar of stability for the Chilean economy. But an effective monetary policy, in combination with public-spending restraint, is . . .

Rivers of cash: Brazil's banks are bigger and more profitable but credit remains expensive and scarce.
President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva irritated many Brazilians when, a few months ago, he called upon them to "get their butts up off their chairs" and look for banks offering lower interest rates. . . .

2005 financial leaders: the top 100 banks, pension funds, insurers and brokerage houses.(Brief Article)(Cover Story)
Any government can boast healthy economic indicators, but the people won't be impressed unless their lives are any better. High commodity prices can push up gross domestic product and that may be . . .

Cream of the crop: Colombian coffee growers turn the familiar Juan Valdez brand from an ad into a retailer.(MARKETING)
For the 327 coffee-growing families selling their beans through El Jazmin, a cooperative in the mountainous Colombian city of Pereira, Juan Valdez is their ace marketer. Yes, the same Juan Valdez . . .

From small things: Brazil, Russia, India and China--the emerging world's big dogs--are starting to get attention.(MARKETING)
The alphabet soup of corporate sales geographies is amusing enough. Somehow, companies combine cultures as distinct as Europe, the Middle East and Africa into a single area (EMEA). Others talk of . . .

Big chill: a gold mine might make engineering history in Chile and Argentina, but protestors are out to block it.(MINING)
With the discovery of the New World, tales of a resplendent, gilded kingdom, El Dorado, spurred legions of adventurers to set sail. In their sometimes suicidal pursuit of gold, however, Spain's . . .

Stripped bare: a profit motive might be the best way to convince poor farmers to leave the trees alone.(RADAR)
It's shaping up to be a banner year for bad environmental news from Latin America. The destruction of the Amazon jungle has reached its highest level in a decade. Thirty-six million hectares of . . .

The statesman.(RADAR)(Jose Maria Aznar, former spanish prime minister)(Interview)
Former Spanish Prime Minister Jose Maria Aznar has the luxury these days of speaking his mind. The driving force behind Spain's return to the fore among world powers, he makes no bones about being . . .

Wired tribe.(RADAR)(Javae tribe, Brazil)(Brief Article)
Six-year-old Ikulari, an indigenous boy from Brazil's Javae tribe in Tocantins state, north of Brasilia, ran away from the first computer he ever saw--twice. Now, however, he is instead glued to . . .

Racket club.(RADAR)(Brief Article)
A corruption scandal that forced Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva's chief of staff Jose Dirceu to resign has rocked the government's coalition and the nation. Dirceu was accused . . .

Safe and sound--sort of.(RADAR)(Brief Article)
Wealthy Latin Americans generally have less appetite for risk than rich folks from other corners of the globe, according to a study compiled by U.S. investment bank Merrill Lynch and French . . .

Chat line.(RADAR)
"We are not making huge strategic changes. This is a transitional government."--Armando Loayza, Bolivian foreign relations minister (El Mercurio) We don't have one but four bureaucracies. This . . .

Hot stuff.(RADAR)(Brief Article)
Just over a year ago, Empada Ranch was little more than a lunch truck selling snacks in Sao Paulo. Today, the truck is retired, the business has become a franchise and the chain has eight stores . . .

Mover and shaker.(RADAR)(Brief Article)
Most who know Charleston, South Carolina, think of salt marshes, southern cuisine and lovely antebellum homes. Talk to port officials there, and they're thinking even further south, to Central . . .

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