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Spotlight: Financial services: Banking within reach of more Mexicans
Skelton, Edward C. (2010-10)
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.
Southwest Economy , Issue Q4 , Pages 15

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Financial globalization: manna or menace? The case of Mexican banking
Bubel, Robert V.; Skelton, Edward C. (2002-01)
Southwest Economy , Issue Jan , Pages 17-19

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Eleventh District Banks Confront Challenging Energy, Rate Situation
Klemme, Kelly; Skelton, Edward C. (2017-04)
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.
Southwest Economy , Issue Q2 , Pages 7-11

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Mexico develops niche approach to expansion of banking services
Skelton, Edward C. (2013-01)
The new charter lowers barriers to market entry in Mexico at a time when many other countries are making the banking industry less inviting.
Southwest Economy , Issue Q1 , Pages 10-13

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Mexico's new banking measures aim to increase credit, transparency
Skelton, Edward C. (2014-07)
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.
Southwest Economy , Issue Q3 , Pages 12-16

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Risks mount for Eleventh District banks amid energy weakness
Skelton, Edward C.; Klemme, Kelly (2016-04)
Relatively low energy prices have slowed economic expansion and diminished prospects for Eleventh District banks. Though regional institutions outperformed their peers nationally in 2015, loan growth slowed and profitability declined, leading to a guarded outlook for 2016.
Southwest Economy , Issue Q2 , Pages 3-7

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Mexico emerges from 10-year credit slump
Bubel, Robert V.; Skelton, Edward C. (2005-05)
Southwest Economy , Issue May , Pages 14-18

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Laying the foundation for a mortgage industry in Mexico
Skelton, Edward C. (2006)
Economic Letter , Volume 1

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Mexican banks get ahead of new global capital standards
Skelton, Edward C. (2012-07)
Mexico is a prominent example of an emerging-market economy with a world-class macroeconomic policy framework and stable financial system.
Southwest Economy , Issue Q3 , Pages 16-19

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Mexico's año horrible: global crisis stings economy
Quintin, Erwan; Skelton, Edward C. (2009-07)
Initial optimism has been replaced by increasingly dire predictions for Mexico's near-term economic outlook in response to the global economic slump. World trade flows have dried up, which is particularly damaging for nations like Mexico whose economic activity depends critically on exports. At the same time, international financial uncertainty led investors to withdraw capital from emerging markets. Mexico was also confronted with a number of idiosyncratic shocks: a crackdown on drug cartels and local corruption, a flu epidemic and trade disputes with its most important partner. However, ...
Southwest Economy , Issue Q3 , Pages 3-7