Banco do Brasil is negotiating to buy several smaller banks owned by state governments.
Senior managers from the privately owned Banco Rural and the state-controlled Banco do Brasil have also been convicted of fraud and money-laundering.
The problem now is that Banco do Brasil, owned by the government, is compressing spreads so others will have to follow just to compete.
Banco do Brasil, the biggest state bank, stepped into the breach.
The collection of the Banco do Brasil Foundation allows searches in the following areas: food, education, energy, housing, environment, water resources, income generation and health.
Spokesmen for Banco do Brasil and Odebrecht declined to comment.
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Brazil hopes its plan, announced on Wednesday, to allow government-controlled Banco do Brasil and Caixa Economica Federal to purchase shares in private financial institutions will eventually succeed in shoring up the market.
In another example Conway flew to Brazil to help Talaris, a British portfolio company that makes ATMs and other cash-handling equipment, become a client of Banco do Brasil, a Carlyle fund partner.
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The Bank of Social Technologies (BTS in Portuguese) is a database that includes over 600 technologies certified under the Banco do Brasil Foundation Award for Social Technology, since its first edition in 2001.
There was top-line contraction, particularly due to spread-sensitive revenues as the bank is forced to compete with the behemoth state banks of Banco do Brasil and Caixa, all lowering their spreads on interest rates.
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They were hit hard by the high interest rates of recent years, and many are heavily in debt to Banco do Brasil, the government-owned bank that has traditionally been the main source of farm loans.
Last year, the government abruptly changed its lending rules for auto loans and private banks had to comply or lose business to the big state banks, mainly Banco do Brasil and Caixa Economica Federal.
The government owned banks are all lowered their lending spreads to corporates and individual accounts, too, with private lenders like Itau Unibanco (ITUB) and Bradesco (BBD) following the lead of federal juggernaut Banco do Brasil.
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He also complained about the way the government owned banks are forcing private banks to lower fees and lending spreads by getting the major state owned banks Caixa Economica and Banco do Brasil to take the lead.
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Skaliks thinks the same could happen with Banco Santander do Brasil (BSBR) if Spain were ever in need of cash.
" Lending Interest Rates and Bank Spreads", Banco Central do Brasil, 2005.
Hoping to use the Banco Palmas model as a successful guide for other low-income communities throughout Brazil, the inhabitants of Conjunto Palmeira developed the Instituto Banco Palmas, which partnered with the National Secretariat of Solidarity Economy and the Banco Popular do Brasil in 2005.
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