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The international division of Arthur J. Gallagher & Co. (NYSE: AJG) has announced that it has signed an agreement to acquire a controlling stake in the Colombian retail insurance broker Guianza S.A. Corredores de Seguros (Guianza), subject to regulatory approval. The...

The Colombian Oil & Gas Congress, organized annually by ACIPET (Acronym in Spanish for the Colombian Association of Petroleum Engineers) and Corferias, is the principal petroleum industry event held in Colombia, and billed by its organizers as the fourth most important in...

Epson is promoting its new line of cartridge free inkjet printers designed for SOHO (Small Or Home-Office) environments by offering free prints of photographs or documents to the public at certain locations throughout Bogotá. The “Ecotank” system is built into a line of printers...

Soon after closing a round of convertible debenture financing, Longwood, Florida based ID Global Solutions Corporation has announced its purchase of Bogotá’s MultiPay S.A.S.via a stock swap.  MultiPay is a payment gateway and IT services provider that offers transactional...

Fitch Ratings-New York-21 July 2015: Fitch Ratings has completed its review of Colombia’s five largest banks and their related entities. As a result of the review, the ratings for Bancolombia and Banco Davivienda have been upgraded and the ratings for Banco de Bogota, BBVA...

The electoral campaigns are heating up in Bogotá, Colombia’s capital. Finance Colombia endeavors to speak with every serious candidate willing to offer us their time. This year, we were able to sit down first with Bogotá’s Libertarian candidate, Daniel Raisbeck. The Libertarian...

South American retailer Cencosud has selected Unisys Corporation (NYSE: UIS) to offer IT help desk services to internal users in Colombia, Chile, Perú, Brasil, and Argentina. The five year deal represents the first time that Cencosud has signed such a deal with a technology...

Avianca Holdings S.A. (NYSE: AVH) (BVC: PFAVH), the parent company for Colombia’s flagship airline, and private equity firm Advent International, today announced that they have inked a deal in which Advent will acquire a 30% of the shares of LifeMiles B.V, the subsidiary of...

Toronto based executive search firm The Caldwell Partners International Inc. (TSX: CWL) today announced a significant expansion into Latin America by forming a strategic alliance with CPGroup Latam Ltd., a company founded by the partners that established and led the Latin...

Surgery sounded like it was going cost Edward Janssen an arm and a leg. Even though he had medical insurance, his deductible created out-of-pocket expenses that would force the 58-year-old construction worker from Kansas to go to great pains to come up with the $80,000 to pay for...