Lorenzo Garavito believes the best investment in Colombia is to bet on the consumer. Retail, restaurants, and grocery stores are all low-risk plays with good returns.
New York – Citi (NYSE:C) today announced its intention to exit from consumer banking operations in Brasil, Argentina and Colombia. The businesses, which include retail banking and credit card operations, will initially be transferred from Citicorp into Citi Holdings and will...
We live in a time when every minute we generate millions of records of information that, in a disorganized way, is stored in servers from different companies or networks in the cloud, often without any clear policies on how to manage, process and take advantage of such...
There’s no doubt that shadow IT, the term used to describe the systems and solutions for Information Technology that are installed and used in organizations without the explicit authorization of the company, poses a real and urgent risk to banks. But shadow IT can also be a boon...
Praxis, the multinational IT firm has announced that it is introducing new SAP solutions designed to improve operational efficiency to the financial sector in Colombia. SAP solutions are ubiquitous across many industries, but with specific regards to the banking industry, the...
As the digital revolution transforms the economy, one megabank chairman warned his staff recently, “The industry faces more change in the next 10 years than there has been in the past 200.” So where will those banking changes emerge in 2015? Let’s use the familiar categories of...