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The City of Bogotá controlled telecommunications company, Empresas Telefonicas de Bogotá (ETB) (BVC:ETB) has seated a newly formed board of directors that, in their first meeting, elected Jorge Castellanos Rueda (above) as the new president. In Colombia, it is common for...

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...

Colombia’s unemployment rate dropped in November to 7.3%, announced Minhacienda, Colombia’s Finance Ministry, along with statistics agency DANE yesterday. The new rate reflects a drop of 0.4 percentage points over the 2014 statistic. The rate in the 13 largest cities was measured...

Yesterday, President Juan Manuel Santos, along with Finance Minister Mauricio Cardenas and Labor Minister Luis Eduardo Garzón, signed into law Decreto (Decree) 2552 of 2015, setting the Colombian monthly minimum wage at $689,455 pesos. This power was given to the executive branch...

Yesterday, Colombia’s Development Finance Agency, FDN (Financiera Nacional de Desarrollo) announced the successful financing of the first three 4G (Fourth Generation) highway concessions, expanding the country’s ground transportation infrastructure. This will facilitate...

Colombia’s Finance Ministry (Minhacienda) head Mauricio Cardenas said Tuesday at Bogotá’s Bloomberg Conference that the government will propose a national budget of “Intelligent Austerity”—belt tightening in public sector spending, and supporting private sector growth into a...

Colombia’s Central Bank board at its meeting last Friday decided to keep the country’s benchmark interest rate at 4.5% taking into account the following: The United States economy is expanding at a slower pace, and the Euro area and Japan are showing signs of gradual recovery....

According to DANE (Colombia Statistics Bureau) figures, the number of employed people increased 4.1% from March 2014, meaning that in the last year, 854,000 Colombians found jobs. This resulted in a maximum employment rate for any March since Colombia started tracking...

Colombia’s Minister of Finance, Mauricio Cardenas, revealed Thursday that Colombia will have access to a credit line of US $ 400 million with the Central American Bank for Economic Integration (BCIE for its initials in Spanish). Colombia has been a non-regional member of the BCIE...