Chile Crowned the Andean King

Chile Crowned the Andean King

Bank of America’s investor survey puts Chile back on top — and the shift says more about the region than a monthly ranking The Hispano-Luso Report The crown moved, and now it has moved back. In June, Colombia displaced Chile as investors’ preferred Andean market; by...
Santander Completes Its American Turn

Santander Completes Its American Turn

The Webster purchase closes as Santander nears €200bn market cap — continental Europe’s most valuable bank The Hispano-Luso Report The sentence was the strategy, and now the strategy has a closing date. When Santander’s executive chair told American...
How Brazil Fell in Love with ChatGPT

How Brazil Fell in Love with ChatGPT

Top three in users, second in developers — and enterprise use grew five-fold, says OpenAI. Inside the romance, and the sovereignty question underneath it The Hispano-Luso Report Every night in November, Brazilians sent ChatGPT some 140 million messages. This month the...
Amazon’s $2bn Bet on Latin Streaming

Amazon’s $2bn Bet on Latin Streaming

Prime Video’s biggest Latin American commitment yet — and the third layer of the anglosphere’s quiet acquisition of the region’s attention The Hispano-Luso Report Amazon will invest US$2,000 million in Prime Video in Latin America — the streaming...