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Fitch Ratings announced this week that the US based ratings firm expects that favorable financing conditions and projected GDP growth of 3.5% for 2015 bode well for mergers and acquisitions (M&A) activity in the Colombian corporate sector. ‘Colombia has become a vibrant...

Superfinanciera, the Colombian regulator of insurance activities, has given Brazilian Reinsurance provider Terra Brasis Re authorization to enter the Colombian insurance market as a foreign reinsurer, as registered in Colombia’s REACOEX, or Registry of Foreign Reinsurers and...

Global meeting and events organizer Markets Group is gearing up for a one day pan regional meeting hosting leading fixed income investors from throughout Latin America, including pension funds, sovereign reserves, and central bankers. The event is designed to demystify the...

Gran Colombia Gold, the Canadian based gold and silver mining concern, announced today that it sent US$1,058,062 to the trustee to fund monthly interest payments to be made on February 27, 2015 on its Senior Secured Gold-Linked Notes due 2017 and its Senior Unsecured...

Above: Contraband gasoline smuggled into Maicáo, Colombia from Venezuela. Photo Credit: Loren Moss MIAMI, Feb. 3, 2015, (PRNewswire) — The border between Colombia and Venezuela is home to some of the world’s richest oil and gas reserves. But it is also...

Finance Colombia’s Loren Moss sat down with with Christian Onetto, the general manager of Cisco Colombia, to get his take on why Cisco sees such promise in Colombia. Cisco recently moved to expansive, revamped offices in Bogotá’s Usaquen district, complete with Colombia’s first...

Minvivienda, Colombia’s ministry of housing announced that maximum rent increases for those residential renters in leases that conform to the official rate when adjusting rents a contract anniversary dates will be limited to 3.66%, a rate equal to the rate of inflation determined...

The depressed global oil prices have not been kind to Pacific Rubiales, Colombia’s largest independent oil producer. Heavily staffed with refugees from Venezuela’s PDVSA, the company is finding it even more challenging to create shareholder value than its other petroleum sector...

The bonds, due in 2045, have a 5% coupon, the lowest rate that Colombia has achieved to date. The Ministry of Housing and Public Credit, Minhacienda, completed a successful bond offering today of $1.5 Billion (US), though there was $5 billion worth of demand from 244...

The ratings firm Fitch reaffirmed its opinion on Medellin’s creditworthiness in a release issued today. Edited excerpts follow: According to Fitch, the rating actions are the result of the city’s relevant role in the Colombian economy; sound, albeit declining,...