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Spotlight on Latin America: overview

  • Debevoise & Plimpton LLP
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  • Argentina, Brazil, Central & South America, Mexico, Venezuela
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  • March 8 2013

This is the second regional spotlight issue of FCPA Update, following our August- September 2012 spotlight on the Asia-Pacific region. In this issue

Impact of Dodd-Frank derivatives regulations on Latin American financial institutions

  • Davis Polk & Wardwell LLP
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  • Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Central & South America, Chile, Colombia, Costa Rica, Cuba, Dominican Republic, Ecuador, El Salvador, Guatemala, Haiti, Honduras, Mexico, Nicaragua, Panama, Paraguay, Peru, Uruguay, USA, Venezuela
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  • November 12 2012

There are a number of Dodd-Frank Act derivatives reform provisions that could affect Latin American financial institutions, even those whose swap market activities take place completely outside of the United States

Latin America offshore roundup

  • Mayer Brown LLP
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  • Argentina, Brazil, Colombia, Mexico, Peru, Venezuela
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  • August 8 2011

With oil reserves second only to the Middle East and significant gas reserves, Latin America has become a natural focus of oil and gas exploration in recent years

Reinsurance prices down in Brazil? Costa Rican bank receives authorization to market insurance products on behalf of insurance companies; Venezuelan politician questions motives of opponents of new insurance law

  • Edwards Wildman Palmer LLP
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  • Brazil, Costa Rica, Venezuela
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  • July 30 2009

Eduardo Nakao, the CEO of IRB-Brasil Re, the government-controlled former reinsurance monopoly holder, recently acknowledged that the IRB’s reinsurance prices have hit a nine-year low and reportedly attributed the decline to increased competition from foreign reinsurance competitors

Premium growth results and forecasts

  • Edwards Wildman Palmer LLP
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  • Argentina, Brazil, Colombia, Mexico, Puerto Rico, Venezuela
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  • July 27 2009

Mapfre’s Latin American operation, Mapfre America, recently announced that its net profits increased 25.0 and its total premiums 20.3 when comparing the first half of 2009 to the first half of 2008

Latin American update: Brazil, Chile, Mexico, Peru, Venezuela

  • Edwards Wildman Palmer LLP
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  • Brazil, Chile, Mexico, Peru, Venezuela
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  • July 8 2009

Brazilian insurance and reinsurance regulator SUSEP recently issued guidance stating that it does not consider valid reinsurance issued to group health organizations, medical cooperatives and autogestion organizations

Developments in Brazil, Chile, Venezuela, Costa Rica, Bolivia

  • Edwards Wildman Palmer LLP
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  • Bolivia, Brazil, Chile, Costa Rica, Venezuela
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  • May 13 2009

According to SUSEP, the Brazilian insurance regulator, total premiums for February 2009 reached R$ 5.4 billion (US$ 2.57 billion), an 11.3 increase from February 2008 but a 3.2 decline compared to January 2009

Latin American Update

  • Edwards Wildman Palmer LLP
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  • Brazil, Central & South America, Chile, Venezuela
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  • May 7 2009

The Brazilian government is expected to soon announce the creation of a credit guarantee fund for small and medium-sized businesses in order to encourage bank lending to such entities

World Bank and others pledge US$90 billion in loans to Latin America and Caribbean over next two years; total premiums grow in Peru and Venezuela; Brazilian regulator approves two more occasional foreign reinsurers

  • Edwards Wildman Palmer LLP
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  • Brazil, Central & South America, Peru, Venezuela
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  • April 27 2009

The International Development Bank, World Bank Group, Andean Development Corporation, Caribbean Development Bank and the Central American Bank for Economic Integration recently announced their pledge to lend US$90 billion to Latin America and the Caribbean in the next two years

Latin American insurance market growth updates: Brazil, El Salvador, Peru, Venezuela

  • Edwards Wildman Palmer LLP
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  • Brazil, Central & South America, El Salvador, Peru, Venezuela
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  • March 31 2009

Several Latin American countries recently reported growth in their insurance markets

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