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Mexico emerges from 10-year credit slump
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Rising protectionist threat creates risks for Texas
Expanding trade has brought jobs and business to Texas, but has left the state particularly vulnerable to antitrade actions. Texas would suffer greatly if the U.S. and other countries implement protectionist measures.
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Reaching Mexico's unbanked
Banks and the government have mounted a major effort to extend financial services to those without them.
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Mexico develops niche approach to expansion of banking services
The new charter lowers barriers to market entry in Mexico at a time when many other countries are making the banking industry less inviting.
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How much will the global financial storm hurt Mexico?
The credibility earned by prudent policymaking over the past decade should help Mexico weather the current financial storm without devastating effects on real economic activity.
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Spotlight: Financial services: Banking within reach of more Mexicans
In 2008-09, Mexico was wracked by the global financial crisis, suffering its largest one-year economic contraction since at least the 1930s. But the banking sector withstood the shock and made important strides in one area--bringing previously unbanked households into the financial system. Boosting Mexico's economic development by helping small businesses fulfill their potential depends on improving access to finance and fully linking these engines of economic growth and opportunity to the formal economy.
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Mexico's new banking measures aim to increase credit, transparency
The overhaul of Mexico?s banking laws, enacted as part of President Enrique Pea Nieto?s wideranging economic and business structural changes, is designed to increase credit to small and medium-sized businesses while enhancing regulatory oversight and transparency.
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Eleventh District Banks Confront Challenging Energy, Rate Situation
Regional banks continue to navigate through the reality of depressed, though stable, energy prices. The institutions? performance slipped behind that of their counterparts nationally in 2016.
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Robust regional banking sector faces new economic hurdles
Profitability held steady at Eleventh District banks in 2014 as they continued outperforming their counterparts nationwide. However, rising interest rates and lower oil prices have emerged as potential tests for the region?s institutions.
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Laying the foundation for a mortgage industry in Mexico