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For the second year in a row, Finance Colombia will be participating as a media sponsor of Bonds, Loans & Derivatives Andes, at the JW Marriott in Bogotá February 23 & 24th.  As the only conference in the Andean region bringing together Colombian and Peruvian capital...

After Colbun dropped out of bidding last Friday (causing Colbun’s stock to rally strongly, up of 3.2%), only one bidder remains in contention for tomorrow’s January 13 auction for Colombian government controlled power producer, Isagen. Isagen is the third largest energy producer,...

UPDATE: According to Colombia Reports, Chile’s Colbun drops out of bidding for Colombia’s Isagen on Monday, January 11, 2 days before the slated auction After a series of debates in Congress and conflicting positions between Colombian political parties, the Colombian...

Mauricio Cardenas Santamaria (pictured above), Minister of Finance and Public Credit in Colombia will be delivering a keynote address at Bonds, Loans & Derivatives Andes conference next month, February 23 & 24.  Speaking for the third consecutive year, the Finance...

Medellín’s newly elected mayor, Federico Gutierrez Zuluaga , upon taking office January first, immediately appointed engineer Jorge Londoño de la Cuesta (above) as the general manager of Empresas Publicas de Medellín (EPM), the multinational utility company directly owned by the...

Fitch Ratings today has announced credit rating actions for Medellín, Colombia. As Colombia’s second largest city and economy, the rating action reflects Medellin’s financial strength, its importance in the national context as well as its manageable debt metrics. Key Rating...

Fitch Ratings-New York-29 October 2015: The weather phenomenon known as El Nino, which causes lower water precipitation in Colombia, is currently putting the country’s electricity regulatory framework to the test, according to Fitch Ratings. A drought that could last until...

In 1941, the artist Pedro Nel Gómez, followed by the architect Juan Wolff in 1942, floated initiatives to make the Medellin river the center for life and development in Colombia’s second largest city. Nothing much happened until urban planners Carlos Julio Calle and Luis Fernando...

The utility Grupo EPM (Empresas Públicas de Medellín), owned by the municipal government of Colombia’s second largest city, has reached an agreement to purchase the water utility Aguas de Antofagasta, S.A. (ADASA)  in Chile, subject to Chile’s Empresa Concesionaria de Servicios...