Category: Colombia

Late in 2004, Colombia broke with tradition. In place of its usual year-end dollar bonds to pre-fund spending in the year ahead, it issued landmark peso-denominated global bonds.  The CP954.24 […]

Enlightened regulation has made Colombia’s debt market a launch pad for innovative new structures from domestic and international issuers.

Colombia will soon become a net importer of oil unless it can attract more investment. International oil companies want the government to offer them a better deal.

Colombia’s Grupo Empresarial Antioqueño is a dominant player in the financial services, food and cement industries. But its complex structure is limiting access to capital, a problem GEA’s bosses are trying to overcome.

Roberto Junguito, Colombia’s new finance minister, has his work cut out for him. He must deal with the country’s budget
deficit, wage fiscal war on the guerillas and grow the
economy.

Uribe Makes Key Appointments Colombia’s President-elect Alvaro Uribe has chosen Roberto Junguito to be his finance minister. Junguito was Colombia’s representative to the International Monetary Fund and an economist at […]

Investors are applauding Colombia’s economic team for straightening out the government’s finances. But political uncertainty is rising with the approach of the 2002 elections.

In July, Colombia’s three feeble stock exchanges merge into a unified bourse. The question is, will the change restore equity investment in the country, even if sovereign risk improves?