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Today Fitch Ratings announced the appointment of managing director Carlos Fiorillo as head of Latin America, effective immediately. Fiorillo succeeds Peter Shaw, who has retired after 25 years of service at Fitch. Most recently, Fiorillo was the head of Fitch’s Mexico operations,...

Next May 28th in Medellín’s Hotel Intercontinental, engineers from around the country are invited to a seminar and workshop on flexible technical solutions for the control and mitigation of geologic and geotechnical risks, led by Geobrugg AG – Warco with support from the...

Liberty Seguros, subsidiary of US based Liberty Mutual Insurance Group, is selling its group, labor and individual life insurance business in Colombia to local insurer Seguros Bolivar. Finalization of the transaction is subject to the approval of Superfinanciera, the Financial...

José Manuel Restrepo, Colombia’s Minister of Commerce, Industry and Tourism has announced a hotel occupancy rate for March of this year of 58.44% reached by hotel occupancy in March, according to figures released by DANE, Colombia’s national statistics agency. For Restrepo, this...

Fitch Ratings ratified the BBB international rating and the AAA and F1 + national long and short-term ratings, respectively, of ISAGEN S.A. E.S.P., all with stable perspective. Likewise, it affirmed the AAA rating of local bond issuances of ISAGEN, and the AAA and F1 + the long...

Toronto, Ontario based Royal Road Minerals Limited (TSXV:RYR) has announced that it has entered into an agreement with Canadian investment advisors Pollitt & Co. Inc. as its agent in connection with a proposed private placement offering of up to 40 million ordinary shares of...

Colombia’s house of representatives approved as part of its National Development Plan last week, authorization for the Ministry of Mines & Energy to study the possibility of introducing Hydraulic Fracturing, nicknamed “Fracking,” in Colombia. The unconventional petroleum and...

Bogotá based Rappi, an on-demand delivery startup operating in Latin America, has announced an investment of up to $1 billion USD from Japanese tech giant SoftBank Group Corp and SoftBank Vision Fund. The investment marks the largest technology financing to date in a Latin...

The Viva Air Group and Cartesian Capital Group have announced Cartesian’s capital investment of $50 million to contribute to the growth and internationalization of the airline in Colombia, Peru and more destinations. “The fact that a private global capital firm such as...

Gran Colombia Gold Corp. (TSX: GCM; OTCQX: TPRFF) announced Thursday its first quarter 2019 results up to March 31, 2019, highlighting record breaking gold production and low production costs. In a written statement, the gold miner operating Marmato and Segovia gold mines in...