Since economic stagnation continues and hardly any increase in sales is expected, it is natural for corporate managers to pursue both higher return on assets (ROA) and higher return on equity (ROE).
Some account holders in the Mexican city of Mexicali, some of whom may be connected with these cartels, are hit hard by this measure. They need a new place to store their money. They find it just over the border. Armored cars loaded with cash come and go at a local branch of a well-known Dutch bank in the Californian city of Calexico.