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More than $4.6 billion USD in remittances entered Colombia last year — a 13.3% spike over 2014 and the second largest increase in Latin America.

AmEx says it now has a 10% participation in the market and is looking to double this percentage quickly.

Demand Frontier is a digital marketing agency founded in Texas, with a rapidly growing outpost in Medellín. The business-to-business firm services Fortune-500 companies from both locations, but sees Colombia as key to its plans for growth. Finance Colombia executive editor Loren...

Medellín based SURA Asset Management and Peru’s Credicorp Capital  have announced a strategic alliance creating a new fund in order to invest  $1.3 billion COP (approximately $400 million USD) in Colombia’s “fourth generation” (4G) roadway infrastructure projects. The...

US based credit reporting agency TransUnion (NYSE: TRU) has acquired a 71% ownership interest in Central de Informacion Financiera (CIFIN), one of two primary Colombian credit bureaus; the other being DataCrédito, already owned by TransUnion competitor Experian. In addition to...

Two years after purchasing 40% of Guatemala’s Grupo Agromercantil Holding, parent company of Grupo Financiero Agromercantil and Banco Agromercantil de Guatemala, Bancolombia (NYSE:CIB BVC:BCOLOMBIA), based in Medellín, Colombia has moved to take a controlling interest in the...

Parque Arauco S.A. (SSE: PARAUCO) (Bloomberg: PARAUCO:CI) announced that last month it completed the acquisition of the remaining 45% equity interest in Inversiones Inmobiliarias Arauco Alameda S.A.S (“IARA”), paying Grupo Bancolombia (“Bancolombia”) COP 222,489 million. Parque...

On Sept. 11, 2015, Bancolombia announced an agreement to acquire an additional 20% stake in Banco Agromercantil de Guatemala which would bring the bank’s share of Banco Agromercantil de Guatemala’s equity to 60%. Once the transaction is approved by regulators in both...

Credivalores-Crediservicios SAS, a large consumer lender in Colombia, announced on October 13 the successful closing of a COP $ 270,000 million ($93 million USD) syndicated structured loan with a tenor of 60 months and a revolving availability period of 3 years. This new facility...

At its October meeting, the Board of the Central Bank decided by majority to give a 50-bp hike to the repo rate to 5.25%. This adjustment was above our expectation and market consensus, which aimed at a 25-bp increase. In addition, the Bank reactivated auctions of FX call options...