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The moment of trade finance in Brazil. What is the relationship between a sandwich you eat at a restaurant in Sao Paulo and an international bank?

Gustavo Falcão Pires

BNDES. BNDES aims at fostering the country’s economic and social development. Last year, the segment that showed the most significant growth was that of micro, small and medium-sized businesses, in which BNDES invested R$ 12.6 billion in 128,374 operations, representing a 25% increase compared to 2003, and 32% of the total amount invested by the bank.

Project Finance. Increasingly, project financing is emerging as the preferred alternative to conventional methods of financing infrastructure and other large-scale projects worldwide.

Andreas Sprecher, Adrian Calvert

Helping you deal with risks – The Swiss Export Risk Guarantee. The Export Risk Guarantee (ERG) is an instrument used by the Swiss Confederation to promote Swiss exports. The ERG scheme can provide cover against selected risks that arise from uncertain political or economic conditions in a buyer country. It is easily accessible for Small and Medium Sized Enterprises (SME).

Hans R. Wüthrich

Swiss exports to Brazil. Rules and procedures for financing Swiss exports to Brazil.

Herbert K. Wight

Credit lines for the Northeast. Banco do Nordeste's mission is to foster continuous and sustainable economic growth in the North-east, through providing long-term lowinterest credit to companies of all sizes and sectors.

Regina Tanner, Paulo von Scala

Partnering with the Swiss SME Investor: The seco Start-up Fund (SSF). The SSF was established by seco (the Swiss State Secretariat For Economic Affairs) to facilitate Swiss SMEs' investment in developing and transition countries.

André Calame

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Funding Public-Private Partnerships (PPP). For PPPs to be viable, helping Brazil to attract the necessary investments for the country’s growth, we need solid and clearly defined financing structuring mechanisms.

Antonio Felix de Araujo Cintra, Cláudia Elena Bonelli

brazilian economy

“No savings account freezing, no confiscation, no shocks”. How Brazil, against all odds, beat inflation thanks to the Plano Real. The first part of this article was published in issue 39 of the SWISSCAM magazine.

Christiane Henkel

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DEG – Smart capital for private investors. DEG provides long-term credit and/or equity capital to German, European and Brazilian companies.

Edson Misao Furuiti

Amanco benefits from the Cresce Nordeste Program from Banco do Nordeste: company invests R$ 20 million to set up a plant in Suape in northeastern Brazil. Amanco Brazil, the Brazilian subsidiary of the Swiss group Amanco Holdings, and manufacturer of the Akros Fortilit products, is one of the leading manufacturers of hydrosanitary products, plastic pipes and connections in Latin America with more than 1.600 collaborators in Brazil.

chamber news

New marketing committee - lunch presentation with Guilherme Afif Domingos - end-of-the-year celebration in Sao Paulo and Rio

business class

Derendinger is another celebrity portrayed by Swiss author Martin Suter, a real expert intoday's executives' personality. This time, we can witness an interesting inversion of roles between the 'boss who fires' and the 'employee who gets fired'.

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03/2005

Edition 40 | focus: Financing Instruments

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