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Given the challenging petroleum price environment observed since the beginning of 2016, Ecopetrol S.A. (BVC:ECOPETROL; NYSE:EC; TSX:ECP) has announced that it will seek to save an additional $1.6 trillion COP ($478.736 million USD) through 2016. This comes after the company...

São Paulo based Stefanini, a $1B global provider of IT outsourcing, applications management and consulting, and strategic staffing services, has announced that it has acquired Paipa, Boyacá based Government ERP provider Sysman SAS, which will change its name to Stefanini Sysman...

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...

Ecopetrol’s  (BVC:ECOPETROL NYSE:EC TSX:ECP) board of directors has decided to delist the Ecopetrol ADRs (Depositary Receipts) from the Toronto Stock Exchange, pursuant to section 720 of the TSX Companies’ Manual. The decision was based, according to a statement put out this...

Five year old Brazilian reinsurance company Austral Resseguradora has received authorization to operate in Colombia and Ecuador, the Rio de Janeiro firm has announced. The firm is a subsidiary of Austral Participações S.A. Aside from operations in Brasil, Colombia and Ecuador,...

Pacific Exploration & Production Corp. (TSX: PRE) (BVC: PREC) announced today that the company and its lenders have agreed to extend the Liquidity Deadline to February 4, 2016, “or such later date as the company and its lenders shall agree.” This comes after the oil company...

Michael R. Bloomberg today launched Bloomberg Philanthropies’ 2016 Mayors Challenge, a competition to inspire Latin American and Caribbean cities to develop bold new ideas that solve major problems and improve city life – and that ultimately can be shared with other cities. The...

Pacific Exploration & Production Corp. (TSX: PRE) (BVC: PREC), formerly known as Pacific Rubiales, announced on Thursday that it has elected to utilize the 30 day grace period pursuant to the indentures governing its 5.625% notes due January 19, 2025, and its 5.375% notes due...

Local and regional governments (LRGs) in Brazil and Colombia should face similar challenges from the decline in commodities prices and their importance to their economies, according to Fitch Ratings. LRGs in Colombia and Brazil suffer from high numbers of informal workers (those...

Last Sunday, global management consulting firm A.T. Kearney released its 2016 Global Services Location Index (GSLI), an annual report researched by the firm that analyzes and ranks the top 55 countries for outsourcing worldwide based on metrics in three categories: financial...