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Looking further ahead, the World Bank has forecast Colombian GDP to increase by 3.4% in both 2019 and 2020.

Eduardo Almeida says that, in Rionegro, "we are expanding based on the contracts we have closed recently with some customers."

"RPA is the cornerstone to this next wave of transformation," says Felix Massun, CEO of Latin America for Symphony Ventures.

ePayco, RapiCredit, ESCALA Educación will compete against their regional peers for $75,000 USD in startup funding.

"We make a digital banking platform that works across the mobile channel, internet banking channel, smartphones, tablets," says Marcelo González of VeriTran.

Los Andes jumped from 10th to 5th since last year, helping to put Colombia in the TACTICS group of nations that are "most likely to become future higher education stars."

Last July, the IMF forecasted Colombia's GDP to grow by 3.0% in 2017. In October, that figure fell to 2.7% then, in April, it was cut again to 2.3%. Now it sits at 2.0%.

Best known in Colombia for its Jumbo brand of hypermarkets, the company's large regional presence highlights its financial stability.

"Latin American economies remain vulnerable to a sharp deceleration in the Chinese economy and its knock-on effects in commodity prices," said Rui J. Pereira of Fitch Ratings.

The perception of security in Colombia is better than the three other largest countries in Latin America: Mexico, Brazil, and Argentina.