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Samba Tech: One of the Hottest Startups in the World

By Pedro Filizzola Samba Tech’s story begins back in 2004 when our CEO and then marketing student, Gustavo Caetano, was an intern at a big health insurance provider in Brazil, but wasn’t enjoying the experience. He didn’t like the internal

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Fruitful Relationships: Clearing and Settlement in Brazil

By Flavio Peppe As Brazil’s economy has grown so has its financial markets. The volume of equities traded on the main market, BM&F BOVESPA, has increased five-fold over the past five years, and the exchange’s derivatives platform was the world’s

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Brazilian Investor Relations Institute (IBRI): Access to International Capital Markets

Connecting Brazilian Investor Relations (IR) professionals with global capital markets is a key objective for IBRI (Brazilian Investor Relations Institute). With this objective in mind, every two years, IBRI hosts Brazil Day, an international forum in which the country’s leading

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IABA: E-Sustainability – Law and Technology Working for the Environment

By Leonardo A. F. Palhares and Caio Iadocico de Faria Lima The times we live in have been shaped by evolution and technology in a very interesting way. In June 2012, the United Nations Conference on Sustainable Development, also known as

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Frugality, Education, Infrastructure and Attitude Change is Needed in the West: We Should Not Rely on Keynesian Nostrums to Pull Us Through

By Jon Moynihan The West’s economic dilemma will not be solved until those countries have not just restructured their balance sheets, by significantly lowering expenditure, but have also significantly changed the mix of that expenditure. In the UK and the

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New ‘Pacific Alliance’ Upbeat and Seeking Competitive Advantages

Leaders of Pacific Alliance: Ollanta Humala, President of Peru; Juan Manuel Santos, President of Colombia; Sebastián Piñera, President of Chile; Felipe Calderón, President of Mexico.   The new bloc’s integration opens up significant opportunities for incremental economic development through increased

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IBGC: Progresses in Corporate Governance – Brazil is Also on Board

By Heloisa B. Bedicks In a hindsight, we can identify several milestones in the evolution of capital markets, as well as national and international organizations that underpin such evolution. As part of an ongoing process, crises in corporate and financial

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The Brazilian Bar Association and the Citizenship

By Ophir Cavalcante Junior The Brazilian Bar Association`s institutional and statutory role gave lawyers and its representative entity responsibilities that go beyond merely corporative interests, giving them an active participation on the work for the nowadays Rule of Law. When

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World Bank Group’s PREM: Harnessing Trade Opportunities for Growth and Development

The pace of global trade integration over the past two decades has been extraordinary. Trade has been a key driver of global growth, convergence, and poverty reduction. During 1983–2010, global trade grew twice as fast as gross domestic product (GDP).

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Rio Negócios: Celebrating Two Years and R$3 Billion of Investments in the City

Rio de Janeiro is one of the cities that most attracts foreign direct investment in the world, launched recently in global spotlight with the encouragement of a powerful global marketing platform, efficient management, as well as all of its qualities

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