Bill Hinchberger

A Chinese policy paper calls for stronger economic and other ties with Latin America and the Caribbean. The feeling seems mutual. China released a white paper in December outlining plans to expand and deepen its relationship with Latin America.

Advanced analytical and forecasting tools are changing the way CFOs work and the skill sets needed to excel. CFOs and their teams are parlaying their unique perches in corporate organizational charts with the emergence of AI and other tools to lead the growing use of technology-enabled strategic foresight and planning. The finance team has long stood alone with full access to all the data and all the people in any firm (human resources has access to employees but not the numbers).

Deindustrialization and recommodification have been setting Latin American economies back for decades. Can a push for greater productivity put them on track again? In the 10 years from 2014 to 2023, Latin America’s aggregate economy managed to quietly reach depths unknown even during the dismal Lost Decade that followed the onset of the region’s debt crisis in 1982.