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Banking / Investment in Central America

  • HSBC remains the leader of The Banker’s Central American

    ARGENTINA, 2013/03/13 While Panama's banks held their lead as the biggest banks in Central America, Nicaragua steamed ahead in terms of return on capital and return on assets. HSBC remains the leader of The Banker’s Central American rankings with a Tier 1 capital up by 8.38% to $1.23bn in 2011, the last available financial year.
  • Central bank of Elsalvador

    EL SALVADOR, 2013/01/17 El Salvador is the fourth major receiver of remittances in Latin America, totaling $3.52 billion from January to November last year, according to the country's central bank.
  • Costa Rican Central Bank president Rodrigo Bolaños

    COSTA RICA, 2012/12/28 The fiscal deficit will affect the economic development of Costa Rica for 2013, a country in which a smaller closing than the in 2012 in nearly 2 percentual points, said Costa Rican Central Bank president Rodrigo Bolaños here Monday. The short-term policies cannot still stop the deficit and do not give the awaited results, said Patricia Perez, president of the Gain and Public Expense Control Commission for the Legislative Assembly.