Tag: BM&FBovespa

• Friday, May 20th 2016 - 11:05 UTC

  Petrobras new CEO is a former energy minister and chief of staff

  

  Former Brazilian energy minister Pedro Parente has been named by acting President Michel Temer as the new CEO of state-run oil giant Petrobras. Parente was picked Thursday to replace Aldemir Bendine, an appointee of now suspended President Dilma Rousseff. The new Petrobras CEO was working as chairman of Sao Paulo-based financial bourse BM&FBovespa.

• Friday, December 14th 2012 - 07:36 UTC

  Banco do Brasil expects to open its first commercial branch in China early 2013

  

  Government owned and the largest in the country in assets, Banco do Brasil received this week approval from China’s regulator to open a commercial branch in the country which is Brazil’s main trading partner.

• Wednesday, July 18th 2012 - 08:58 UTC

  Brazil’s nominee for securities regulator chosen from the private sector

  

  Leonardo Gomes Pereira, the chief financial officer of Brazilian airline Gol Linhas Aereas was nominated on Tuesday to head the country's securities regulator, in an unexpected pick outside the institution. Finance Minister Guido Mantega nominated Pereira to head the regulator, the CVM, the ministry said in a statement.