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Fitch Ratings has downgraded  Avianca Holding’s  (NYSE: AVH) (BVC: PFAVH),Long-Term Foreign and Local Currency Issuer Default Ratings (IDRs) to ‘B-‘ from ‘B’ and its USD $550 million senior unsecured notes to ‘CCC+’/’RR5’ from...

Frontera Energy Corporation (TSX: FEC) on May 29 held its annual general and special meeting of shareholders where each of the seven nominees proposed as directors and listed in the Frontera’s management proxy circular dated April 18, 2019 were elected as directors. A total of...

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...

Interjet Airlines is beginning service between Mexico and several South America destinations including Medellín, Colombia, Guayaquil, Ecuador and Lima, Peru. These new flights will serve both the business and leisure traveler expanding Interjet’s footprint into South Americ...

Moody’s Investors Service yesterday changed the outlook on the Government of Colombia to stable from negative. Concurrently, Moody’s has affirmed Colombia’s long-term local and foreign-currency issuer, senior unsecured debt ratings and foreign-currency shelf...

Fitch Ratings has announced today that it has affirmed Colombia’s Long-Term Foreign-Currency Issuer Default Rating (IDR) at ‘BBB’ and revised the Rating Outlook to Negative from Stable. Colombia’s Negative Outlook reflects risks to fiscal consolidation and...

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,...

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...

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...