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Finance Colombia has learned that Jorge Londoño De la Cuesta has resigned his post as head of Empresas Públicas de Medellín (EPM), the country’s largest energy provider. Though it was expected De la Cuesta would be replaced by the incoming administration of mayor-elect Daniel...

Toronto based Avicanna Inc. (TSX: AVCN) (OTCQX: AVCNF) (FSE: 0NN), a biopharmaceutical company focused on the development, manufacturing and commercialization of organic and sustainable plant-derived cannabinoid-based products, has announced last Friday that it has entered into a...

S&P Global Ratings last week raised its issuer credit rating to ‘B-‘ from ‘SD’ and its issue-level rating on the 9% senior secured notes due 2023 to ‘B-‘ from ‘CCC-‘ and the 8.375% senior unsecured notes due 2020 to...

Colombia’s President Iván Duque Márquez announced yesterday, from his Twitter account, the appointment of University of Los Andes economist Arturo José Galindo Andrade as the new co-director of the Banco de la República, Colombia’s Central Bank, replacing José Antonio Ocampo. “I...

Colombia’s government has raised the minimum wage for 2020 by 6% to $980,657 Colombian Pesos ($298.92 USD) per month, including the transportation subsidy mandatory for employees making less than twice the official minimum wage. The minimum monthly salary will be set at $877,803...

After announcing a plan to move away from Latin American markets, Madrid based Telefónica (BME: TEF) has sold 621 Colombian mobile telephony towers to Florida-based Phoenix Tower International, and agreed to sell 521 more Colombian towers and 1,408 towers in Ecuador. In Colombia,...

Royal Road Minerals Limited (TSXV:RYR) announced today that it has entered into a Letter of Intent with Mineros S.A. (BVC: MINEROS) in relation to the company’s Guintar and Niverengo concessions and its Margaritas title application (The “GNM Project) in Antioquia, Colombia....

Empresa de Telecomunicaciones de Bogotá S.A. E.S.P. announced earlier this month the final tender results in connection with its previously announced offer to purchase for cash up to $400,000,000,000 COP in aggregate principal amount of its outstanding 7.00% Senior Notes due 2023...

Vancouver based GoldMining Inc. (TSX: GOLD; OTCQX: GLDLF) has completed its indirect acquisition of the Yarumalito Gold Project located in Antioquia, Colombia. A GoldMining indirect subsidiary paid $200,000 CAD in cash and delivered 1,118,359 newly issued common shares of...

Fitch Ratings has affirmed the ‘BBB-‘ and ‘AA+(col)’ ratings of the UVR-denominated senior secured notes of P.A. Concesion Ruta al Mar for up to $522 billion COP, due in 2044. The Ratings Outlook remains negative. Ratings Rationale The Negative Outlook...