Brazil’s Meal Voucher Market Is Worth US$29 Billion a Year, and Two More Banks Just Walked In
The BTG Pactual benefits card combines food and meal vouchers in one product, entering a R$150 billion market as C6...
August 20, 2026Section
Business
Economic and Business News in Rio de Janeiro and Brazil
Casas Bahia Has Filed for Court Protection Owing US$3.3 Billion. Banco do Brasil Is In for US$560 Million of It
Banco do Brasil Casas Bahia exposure is about R$2.9 billion as the retailer enters judicial recovery with R$17.3 billion of...
August 20, 2026
Mexico City Is Rebuilding Buenavista for Trains That Do Not Run Yet
The Buenavista terminal expansion in Mexico City is due in June 2027, with the Queretaro platform in September 2027, for...
August 20, 2026
Lacoste Has Opened a Cafe in São Paulo, and It Is the Brand’s First in Latin America
The Lacoste cafe Sao Paulo opened on 19 August at Shopping Cidade Jardim, the French brand's first in Latin America,...
August 20, 2026
Rock in Rio Has Sold 8,000 Hours of Branded Experience, and That Is Not a Side Business
Rock in Rio 2026 sponsors number more than 90 brands, with 8,000 hours of activations and about a million giveaways...
August 20, 2026
A.P. Moller Capital Agrees to Buy Control of a Moroccan Logistics Group
A.P. Moller Capital has agreed to buy control of Globex Investissement, a Moroccan logistics group, in a deal that still...
August 20, 2026
Foreigners Pulled US$2.4 Billion Out of Brazil’s Stock Market in a Single Week, the Most on Record
B3 foreign outflows reached R$12.6 billion in the week to 14 August, about US$2.4 billion — the heaviest week in...
August 20, 2026
Mexico’s State Power Company Wants to Borrow Up to US$1.2 Billion at Home, Some of It for Forty Years
The CFE peso bond plan would raise up to 20 billion pesos, about US$1.2 billion, in three tranches — one...
August 20, 2026
Chile Stopped Two Highway Awards Just Before Signing, and Spain’s Builders Are Getting Nervous
Two Chile road concessions in Biobío were halted at the last procedural step on budget grounds, unsettling the Spanish groups...
August 20, 2026