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<title>Global Partnerships closes $20 million fund aimed at microcredit in Latin America</title>
<link>http://www.einnews.com/news.php?wid=198933542</link>
<pubDate>18 Nov 2008 00:52 GMT</pubDate>
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...  Partnerships closes $20 million fund aimed at microcredit in Latin America In the midst of a shrinking supply  ...  institutions in eight countries, which make tiny loans to nearly 1 million borrowers. Donors include  ...
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<title>World Economic Summit: Emerging economies gain unprecedented clout</title>
<link>http://www.einnews.com/news.php?wid=198927702</link>
<pubDate>18 Nov 2008 00:15 GMT</pubDate>
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...  how financial institutions are regulated. The G20&#39;s finance ministers are instructed to hammer out the  ...  nations taking unnecessary risks in the US mortgage market. The International Monetary Fund has forecast  ...  economies in Asia, the Middle East and Latin America are likely to be the key pillars  ...
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<title>South America: Recession Can Be Avoided</title>
<link>http://www.einnews.com/news.php?wid=198922137</link>
<pubDate>17 Nov 2008 23:30 GMT</pubDate>
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...  adage that &quot;When America gets a cold, Latin America catches pneumonia&quot; has been widely cited. However,  ...  various reasons, did not buy the toxic mortgage-backed securities and other &quot;troubled assets&quot; that have  ...  that have tanked US and even European banks, nor did they engage in the kind  ...
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<title>Fitch Places Unibanco&#39;s DPR Program on Watch Positive</title>
<link>http://www.einnews.com/news.php?wid=198920558</link>
<pubDate>17 Nov 2008 23:28 GMT</pubDate>
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...  private financial conglomerate in Brazil and in Latin America. The closing of this agreement is contingent  ...  Payment Rights Finance Company) given that the banking franchises will remain as separate legal entities  ...  However, Fitch recognizes that if the two banks were to eventually merge their operations and  ...
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<title>Beyond the Bailout: Agenda for a New Economy</title>
<link>http://www.einnews.com/news.php?wid=198908696</link>
<pubDate>17 Nov 2008 22:19 GMT</pubDate>
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...  Wall Street, and to hold the remaining banks accountable to the public interest. Treasury Secretary  ...  community banks that fulfill the classic textbook banking function of acting as intermediaries between local  ...  My many years living abroad in Africa, Latin America, and Asia taught me that people of  ...
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<title>Retail Banks Must Conserve Capital and Compete for Deposits to Remain Competitive in 2009</title>
<link>http://www.einnews.com/news.php?wid=198870632</link>
<pubDate>17 Nov 2008 18:00 GMT</pubDate>
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... Retail Banks Must Conserve Capital and Compete for Deposits  ...  To Impact Core Sectors of the Consumer Banking Industry Last update: 12:47 p.m. EST Nov.  ...  suffer more than those emerging markets in Latin America, Africa, and Asia. TowerGroup believes that capital  ...
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<title>Diversification: Bear-back investing</title>
<link>http://www.einnews.com/news.php?wid=198862568</link>
<pubDate>17 Nov 2008 17:19 GMT</pubDate>
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...  On Oct. 10, the finance ministers and central bank governors of the G-7 countries met in  ...  needed to re-establish the confidence necessary for banks to resume lending to firms, households and  ...  expected to be stronger than those in Latin America. The Chinese economy is slowing from 10%-11%  ...
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<title>Financial Injections Ensure the Assets of the Rich</title>
<link>http://www.einnews.com/news.php?wid=198855046</link>
<pubDate>17 Nov 2008 16:31 GMT</pubDate>
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...  over 500 billion euro for the German banking sector, decision-makers claim. What is the opinion  ...  socialism would be a strange socialism. Big banks in the US and Great Britain are  ...  Evo Morales can only dream. But unlike Latin America, the profits of the rich are guaranteed  ...
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<title>Deutsche Bank Americas Foundation Provides Funding to Launch the ASA Foundation</title>
<link>http://www.einnews.com/news.php?wid=198852942</link>
<pubDate>17 Nov 2008 16:20 GMT</pubDate>
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...  of Deutsche Bank within the United States, Latin America and Canada. Together, the Bank&#39;s Community Development  ...  global network of 54 microfinance providers and banks, working in 30 countries to bring financial  ...  the 2008 Financial Times and IFC Sustainable Banking Award. Since Shafiqual Haque Choudhury founded the  ...
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<title>Not an economic collapse, but a growth spurt&#39;</title>
<link>http://www.einnews.com/news.php?wid=198851320</link>
<pubDate>17 Nov 2008 16:14 GMT</pubDate>
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...  were used with ignorance and exaggeration. Old-fashioned bankers and officials did not understand the implications  ...  houses built as a consequence of the mortgage industry expansion in G-7 countries allowed workers  ...  the prices of commodities that has made Latin America enjoy seven continuous years of economic growth  ...
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<title>BBVA Compass Enters New Stage of Transformation Plan Focused on Upgrading U.S. Platform</title>
<link>http://www.einnews.com/news.php?wid=198842705</link>
<pubDate>17 Nov 2008 15:30 GMT</pubDate>
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...  year-long process to integrate BBVA&#39;s four U.S. banks onto a single, common set of operating  ...  and Senior Vice President of Global Corporate Banking at BBVA-New York. In 2002, Sanchez was  ...  maintains a leadership position in Spain, Mexico, Latin America and the Sunbelt Region of the United  ...
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<title>Philippine social movements storm US Embassy</title>
<link>http://www.einnews.com/news.php?wid=198822557</link>
<pubDate>17 Nov 2008 13:30 GMT</pubDate>
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...  already warned that the policies of aggressive loan pushing, financial and trade liberalization would only  ...  priority should not be the bailout of banks and big corporations but the social bailout  ...  in Asia, 7 in Africa, 14 in Latin America and Caribbean, 8 in Europe and 1  ...
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<title>Latin America Combats Credit Crunch</title>
<link>http://www.einnews.com/news.php?wid=198814061</link>
<pubDate>17 Nov 2008 12:30 GMT</pubDate>
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... Central bankers, finance ministers and the Latin American Banking Federation have repeatedly assured companies and the  ...  pledged billions of dollars in liquidity for Latin America&#39;s financial system, as well as increasing regional  ...
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<title>Boom for Brazil&#39;s middle class comes to a halt (Yesterday)</title>
<link>http://www.einnews.com/news.php?wid=198776753</link>
<pubDate>17 Nov 2008 07:15 GMT</pubDate>
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...  or nearly half the amount held by Latin American nations in total. In the face of  ...  His government has approved rules to encourage banks to lend more money and this month announced it will loan $1.9 billion to carmakers&#39; financial subsidiaries to  ...
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<title>U.S. economic malaise is so virulent that it deserves its own name</title>
<link>http://www.einnews.com/news.php?wid=198775405</link>
<pubDate>17 Nov 2008 07:00 GMT</pubDate>
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...  New U.S. Ickonomy might have started with banking and homebuilding, but their toxins spread quickly  ...  their toxins spread quickly to technology (fewer banks need fewer computers), commodities (fewer homes need  ...  it has spread to China, Europe and Latin America. The terror might have started with lower-income  ...
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