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This new board the mayor was able to assemble is notable for not including anyone with deep corporate governance experience or a background running multibillion-dollar international enterprises like EPM. Several nominations with corporate experience by the mayor publicly rejected...

Adding to the turmoil at EPM (Empresas Públicas de Medellín) since Medellín’s mayor Daniel Quintero took office and appointed CEO Álvaro Guillermo Rendón (above photo), the utility’s primary labor union SINPRO has issued a public demand for information on Rendón’s alleged...

Luis Fernando Rico, former general manager of another Colombian utility giant, Isagen along with the general manager of Colombian weekly newsmagazine Semana both rejected Quintero’s appointments, joining Claro Colombia CEO Juan Carlos Archila and Grupo Santo Domingo’s Alberto...

“The recent acts under your responsibility as manager of EPM, and being mayor, as the president of its board of directors, reconfirms to me that the necessary identity of principles no longer exist to continue acting in the representation of EPM, for that I am presenting my...

EPM has received notification from local and international financial entities of the suspension of commercial relations, resulting in the reduction of quotas and credit limits in operations such as loans, exchange risk hedges and bank guarantees, after the board of directors quit...

After the entire board of directors resigned in protest of Medellín Mayor Daniel Quintero's usurpation of board prerogative and corporate governance, international ratings firm Fitch has downgraded EPM's credit rating, and placed it on a negative ratings watch.

Telefonica’s Colombian subsidiary Colombia Telecomunicaciones, operating under the Brand name Movistar, has raised $500 million USD in senior unsecured notes, the company has announced. $350 million of the placement proceeds will be used to replace senior unsecured notes issued...

Fitch Ratings has assigned a long-term 'BBB' rating to Empresas Publicas de Medellin E.S.P.'s (EPM) proposed senior unsecured U.S. dollar debt issuance that matures in 2031. Fitch has also assigned a long-term 'BBB' rating to the company's proposed reopening of its 8.375% senior...

Fitch says Movistar has a diversified service portfolio with a national footprint and improving 4G and fiber broadband networks. Mobile accounts for approximately 60% of revenues in 2019, in line with the regional median.

The number of defaults in 2020 is on pace to exceed that of 2019 with indications there will be more to follow, given 6 group-level defaults YTD compared with 6 in all of 2019, and the high number of ratings at ‘CCC’ or below categories.