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...“Markets have repriced and demand has stabilised so there’s more confidence in underwriting and more confidence from an investor perspective,” said Art de Peña, the head of loan distribution at MUFG Securities...
...Mr Peña describes Mr Galperín as “razor sharp when it comes to numbers, yet humane. He is rare in our business community, and in line with the best of what is coming out of Silicon Valley.”...
...The gubernatorial election in the populous State of Mexico was a critical test for Enrique Pena Nieto, Mexico’s president, and the ruling party, the PRI, ahead of next year’s presidential vote....
...Mexican cellphone charges have dropped about 40 per cent on average since the reform, making it one of the most successful of the multiple structural reforms undertaken by President Enrique Peña Nieto’s...
...Enrique Peña Nieto, president of Mexico: John Kerry, former US secretary of state: “The president was not truthful with the American people today, and the president who talked about putting America first...
...A version of this article was first published by the Nikkei Asian Review on November 4. ©2017 Nikkei Inc. All rights reserved....
...Federico Peña, Bill Clinton’s former transport secretary who chairs the corporate responsibility committee, and Cynthia Milligan, a Wells director since 1992 who heads the credit committee, also fought off...
...Walmart, the biggest retailer in Mexico, was set to announce a $1bn investment at an event with President Enrique Peña Nieto later on Wednesday....
Wednesday’s top stories from the FT
...Ms de la Peña founded Emblematic Group in 2007....
...In Mexico City, a diplomatic Mr Trump heaped praise on Mr Peña Nieto, referring to him as his “friend” and expounding on their countries’ shared goals....
...Unfortunately in this case, the job wasn’t one of the manufacturing gigs he has promised to restore – it was that of the country’s finance minister, who arranged Trump’s recent meeting with President Enrique Peña...
...Meanwhile, public anger has festered over President Enrique Peña Nieto’s tepid response to conflict of interest revelations ensnaring his wife and members of his inner circle....
...A report by rights group Article 19 earlier this year concluded that attacks on the media had surged 80 per cent since Mr Peña Nieto’s term began in December 2012....
...Pena Nieto has already been under pressure over a series of conflict-of-interest scandals around properties acquired from government contractors....
...Farmacias Benavides is the third-largest retail pharmacy chain in Mexico, with around 1,000 stores, while Farmacias Ahumada is one of the three largest pharmacy chains in Chile, with around 400 stores....
...Pena Nieto was feted by investors initially but has since faced a tide of popular disquiet and an increasingly sceptical electorate....
...The deal comes amid a radical shake-up of Mexico’s telecoms sector by President Peña Nieto, which is forcing Mr Slim to break up his empire and sell large chunks of it to rivals to spur competition....
...The government of Enrique Peña Nieto has highlighted as priority projects the Querétaro train; a service from Mexico City to Toluca just to the west; a train line in the Yucatán peninsula; a metro in Monterrey...
...Randall Stephenson, AT&T chairman and chief executive, said: “Our acquisition of Iusacell is a direct result of the reforms put in place by President Peña Nieto....
...Only a month ago, Manuel Medina-Mora, Citigroup’s head of global consumer banking, was beaming as he stood alongside Mexico’s President Enrique Peña and Citi chief executive Michael Corbat in Mexico City...
...Perhaps the biggest rebranding exercise of the year was Mexico’s, following President Enrique Peña Nieto’s reform drive....
...Bankers in Madrid are gossipy on the subject of a sale and there is even chatter that a June 9 to June 10 visit by Enrique Peña Nieto, Mexico’s president, to Madrid may be delayed....
...But Mr Peña Nieto said investors were actively eyeing Mexico and the country was “on the right path” in its security strategy....
...Since he was elected some fifteen months ago, Mr Peña Nieto has driven through an ambitious reform agenda: from telecommunications, to education to energy, there is little Mr Peña Nieto has not dared to...
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