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Laying the foundation for a mortgage industry in Mexico
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Risks mount for Eleventh District banks amid energy weakness
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.
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Mexico emerges from 10-year credit slump
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Spotlight: Mexican financial market : new instruments, rules boost capital investment
Mexico?s financial markets have surged since 2010, recovering from the global financial crisis and benefiting from new capital instruments and rules. Among the most prominent instruments are Certificados de Capital de Desarrollo (CKDs), or trust securities, and the country?s first real estate investment trust.> ; Additionally, modernization of Mexico?s market operations has helped drive initial public equity offerings (IPOs) and debt issuance.
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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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Did home equity restrictions help keep Texas mortgages from going underwater?
With relatively stable house prices in Texas, the incidence of underwater mortgages was a fraction of what occurred in hard-hit states.
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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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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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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.