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Fitch views EPM's corporate governance as weak due to the strong influence exerted by the company's owner, the City of Medellin. EPM has an ESG Relevance Score of '4', which reflects the company's recent instability in board membership and indicates that the score has a negative...

The sovereign downgrade reflects the deterioration of the public finances with large fiscal deficits in 2020-2022, a rising government debt level, and reduced confidence around the capacity of the government to credibly place debt on a downward path in the coming years.

Not only did Quintero fire Rendón earlier this year after appointing him to head the city-owned utility conglomerate a year before, Quintero made several public statements that Rendón considers disparaging, slanderous, and untrue leading to the lawsuit.

City council member Daniel Carvalho has said enough is enough, and that the mayor’s mismanagement is putting Colombia’s second largest enterprise and Medellín’s single largest municipal revenue source at grave risk.

Bond investors and ratings agencies will be watching closely for signs that Carrillo has both the autonomy and acumen to successfully move the company forward while avoiding the political intrigue brewing in Colombia’s second largest city.

The letter of resignation came just hours after a contentious press conference where Calderón wished to discuss his investment plan, but the press, including Finance Colombia, wished to delve into the numerous gaps and inconsistencies in his qualifications.

Calderón has a background in finance and investment, working as a credit analyst for Standard & Poor in Paris, serving as the Colombian consul in Boston, Massachusetts during the Juan Manuel Santos administration, and holding several investment banking roles in Bogotá.

According to former GM Rendón in several interviews, the mayor fired him due to his resistance of the mayor's interference in EPM’s internal management, contrary to the established corporate governance framework that allows EPM to operate as a business without direct political...

When the catastrophic flooding occurred on April 18, 2018, 18 transformers had been installed, but were submerged for 9 months when engineers had to flood the power generation chamber to save the rest of the structure. This left the transformers completely destroyed,...

Olga Lucia Arango, president of SINPRO, EPM's largest labor union, expresses in a letter shared with Finance Colombia, the union's grave concerns with the behavior of, and public battle between Medellín Mayor Daniel Quintero and EPM former GM Alvaró Rendón, who was both hired...