During the 1980s, Mexico ambitiously began modernizing and transforming its economy at all levels in order to participate more fully in the global marketplace. This included developing a commercial policy based on liberalization, deregulation, privatization and integration, as well as a flexible exchange rate policy. Bancomext, the Mexican Bank for Foreign Trade, was founded in 1937 to finance Mexican foreign trade and played a key role in developing international commerce domestically ("border-in"). In this interview, Raul Arguelles, deputy president of Export Development, considers the Bancomext experience and what lessons it holds for other developing countries.