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Credicorp Ltd. (NYSE: BAP) announced last week that it has reached an agreement to acquire 74.49% of the capital stock of Banco Compartir S.A. one of the leading microfinance banks in Colombia, from a group of shareholders including Colsubsidio, Cafam, Comfandi, Comfenalco...

FRISS and Guidewire Software, Inc. (NYSE: GWRE) announced last week that SURA Colombia (SURA) has deployed its integrated claims fraud detection program for motor personal lines with the FRISS accelerator for Guidewire ClaimCenter. According to FRISS, SURA Colombia is the first...

Austral Re and Terra Brasis Re announced today that they have signed an investment agreement to merge their activities. This union will result in the second-largest Brazilian reinsurer in terms of reinsurance premiums underwritten (R$ 672 million in combined gross premiums...

After five years without any new signed hydrocarbons exploration and production contracts, Colombia’s ANH (National Hydrocarbons Agency) in charge of the allocation of oil fields for production, achieved a historic success rate of 55% of the areas offered. Two continental blocks,...

Australis Partners, an independent private equity firm focused on Latin America, in association with Caisse de dépôt et placement du Québec (CDPQ), a Canadian institutional investor and the International Finance Corporation (IFC), a member of the World Bank Group, today finalized...

Hosted by GFC Media Group, Project Finance & Capital Markets Latin America, exclusively designed for projects in Latin America to be unlocked, and innovative financing solutions in capital markets can be discussed, will be launching on September 4th 2019, at The Four Seasons...

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,...

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...

Chevron Petroleum has received a green light from Colombia’s Superintendency of Industry and Commerce (Superintendencia de Industria y Comercio) to purchase Peru-based Primax’s interest in their jointly owned petroleum terminals in the Cali suburb of Yumbo, and the Pacific port...

Petroleum producer Frontera Energy (TSX:FEC)has announced an increase in production to 65,560 barrels of oil per day , equivalent in the first quarter of 2019, up 4% from the same quarter last year. The Canada based company with operations in Colombia attributes the increase to...