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Red Eagle Mining Corporation (TSX-V: RD, OTCQX: RDEMF, SSE-V: RDCL) has completed the second tranche of its previously announced private placement in the amount of approximately $5,650,000 for total gross proceeds of approximately $19,350,000, consisting of 71,677,550 common...

Continental Gold Inc. (TSX:CNL)(OTCQX:CGOOF) has announced that Mateo Restrepo Villegas will serve as Executive Vice-President, effective August 12, 2015, and will be located in the company’s Medellín office. Restrepo brings experience in mining, infrastructure, banking and...

Indian motorcycle company Royal Enfield wants to expand globally, and it is targeting Colombia as a key market. “Currently we are an Indian company,” CEO Siddhartha Lal told India’s Business Standard in July. “We want to be a global player.” Royal Enfield boasts that...

This week, the city of Medellin held the pre-event kickoff for the upcoming Cities For Life Global Meeting 2015, to take place this August 31 to September 1st in Plaza Mayor, the city’s flagship convention center. Cities for Life will bring more than 40 experts from around the...

City backed business incubator Ruta-N announced yesterday a deal with the University of Wisconsin (USA) to establish a $2+ million laboratory in part of the space recently abandoned by Hewlett Packard. The initial term will be for three years. The venture expects to count on...

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...

In some countries, motorcycles are a luxury and a pastime. However in other countries, such as Colombia, they are basic transportation for millions. Cold or hot, rain or shine, motorcycles are on the road in Colombia 24 hours, 7 days a week, 365 days a year. Latin America’s most...

Colombian digital signage company Enmedio has received a funding round of up to $4 million USD in the next 24 months by Madrid-based Axon Partners Group. Enmedio uses digital screens placed in public and private locations to display advertisements, news, information and...

The electoral campaigns are heating up in Bogotá, Colombia’s capital. Finance Colombia endeavors to speak with every serious candidate willing to offer us their time. This year, we were able to sit down first with Bogotá’s Libertarian candidate, Daniel Raisbeck. The Libertarian...

Surgery sounded like it was going cost Edward Janssen an arm and a leg. Even though he had medical insurance, his deductible created out-of-pocket expenses that would force the 58-year-old construction worker from Kansas to go to great pains to come up with the $80,000 to pay for...