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Local blue-chips, multinational corporations and exporters generally do not face obstacles when seeking bank financing. For these firms, collateral requirements are significantly less stringent than for other firms. The dollar [...]

The domestic short-term bond market grew to Ps407.8bn in 2008, representing a 72% year-on-year increase. It has deepened since 2004, when the year-end total amount of short-term debt issue totalled [...]

The main government agencies that oversee Mexican banks are the central bank (Banco de Mexico -- Banxico), the Ministry of Finance and Public Credit (Secretaria de Hacienda y Credito Publico [...]

Mexico has six government-owned development banks. Nacional Financiera (Nafinsa), the largest institution in terms of assets, extends credit in a variety of domestic economic sectors, focusing especially on small and [...]

Local blue-chips, multinational corporations and exporters generally do not face obstacles when seeking bank financing. For these firms, collateral is rarely necessary to obtain loans. Spreads on dollar loans are [...]

Local financing in Mexico is often short term (less than a year), but lower interest and inflation rates are generating longer time frames. The government is also attempting to build [...]

Local commercial banks are the primary source of short-term credit. Loan extension is increasing: lending to the private sector totalled US$182bn in 2006, up from US$155bn in 2005, according to [...]

The main government agencies that oversee Mexican banks are the central bank (Banco de Mexico -- Banxico), the Ministry of Finance and Public Credit (Secretaria de Hacienda y Credito Publico [...]

Top ten domestic banks ------------------------------------------------------------------- Ranked by assets as of end-2007 -- Ps bn Bank Assets Market share (%) Mercantil del Norte (Banorte) 257.8 8.7 Banco Inbursa 117.1 4.0 Banco [...]