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ABOVE:  Colombian President Juan Manuel Santos shakes hands with United States President Barack Obama during a cordial bilateral meeting that they held while the two leaders were attending the Summit of The Americas in Panamá last week. Also attending were Colombian Foreign...

Colombia’s finance minister Mauricio Cardenas, through decree 0602 issued on April 7, has appointed Jorge Castaño Gutiérrez as financial superintendent. Castaño has worked with the financial supervisory authority for the past decade, and has most recently served as the director...

Delta Air Lines (NYSE: DAL) has announced expansion to its service between the United States and Colombia with new flights from its largest hub in Atlanta to Medellin and Cartagena starting December 19 of this year. Tickets for the flights are already available for purchase....

Cencosud S.A. (BCS: CENCOSUD; NYSE: CNCO), the Chile-based  retailer with presence in five countries, including Colombia, announced Friday its consolidated financial results for the fourth quarter and year-end of 2014. All figures are in Chilean pesos (CLP), except where...

Ecopetrol S.A. (BVC: ECOPETROL; NYSE: EC; TSX: ECP) announced yesterday that the General Shareholders’ Meeting, held March 26th, 2015, approved an ordinary dividend of 133 Colombian pesos (COP$133) per share. The General Shareholders’ Meeting approved a lump sum...

Fitch Ratings has issued the following statement this morning regarding the credit outlook of Avianca Holdings. Fitch Ratings has affirmed the ratings of Avianca Holdings S.A.’s (Avianca Holdings) and its subsidiaries as follows: Avianca Holdings S.A. (Avianca Holdings)...

The Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) announced in Korea today the winners of the fifth annual beyondBanking awards, which recognize best projects and initiatives in the region contributing to the creation of a more sustainable financial sector. The awards were given in a...

Consistent with Fitch Ratings’ belief that a major acquisition by Empresa de Energia de Bogota S.A. E.S.P.’s (EEB) is unlikely in the near to medium term, the company publicly declared it will not be participating in the republic of Colombia’s attempted sale of...

The introduction of IFRS reporting in 2015 for Colombian banks is an improvement in financial disclosure, says Fitch Ratings. A majority of IFRS rules became effective for all Colombian financial institutions on Jan. 1, 2015 and introduced material changes in the treatment of...

The Board of Colombia’s Bank of The Republic, at its meeting last Friday decided to keep the benchmark interest rate at 4.5%. According a statement released by the Central Bank, the Board took into consideration the following aspects when reaching its decision: The average...