The Innovation Committee of the Financial Superintendence of Colombia (SFC) notified the approval of the first bond issue in the second market using blockchain technology and smart contracts, in order to monitor them in all phases of the process.
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Central Bank of Colombia maintains interest rates
The board of directors of the Banco de la República de Colombia decided by a majority of six votes to one to maintain interest rates at 1.75 %, as reported in a statement by the entity after its monetary policy meeting.
Among other…
Ethereum Foundation will support projects in Latin America
The Ethereum Foundation announced its first jobs in Latin America, through the support of eight projects in Honduras and five in Colombia.
This is a series of educational projects, development of dApps for animal protection or voting…
Banco de Bogotá will carry out a pilot plan with cryptocurrencies
The Financial Superintendence of Colombia will carry out a pilot plan during March to test operations with cryptocurrencies, in the hands of three major banks.
This pilot is part of the "Regulatory Sandbox", whose objective is to be able…
Colombia January unemployment rate was 17.3 %
Colombia's unemployment rate stood at 17.3 % in January, compared to 13 % in the same month the previous year, with a total of 4.16 million unemployed people in the Andean country during the first month of the year, according to data…
BID Annual Meeting will address economic recovery
This March 17, the 61st annual meeting of the Inter-American Development Bank (BID) will take place, where economic and financial leaders will debate through a virtual meeting issues related to economic recovery and sustainable growth in…
Colombian fintech will allow users to buy crypto assets
The Colombian digital and fintech wallet, MOVii, has announced its new pilot plan directed with the help of Bitpoint, to the purchase and sale of crypto assets to the users of the platform, as announced by the CEO of the fintech, Hernando…
UxTIC and Binance Foundation to launch blockchain courses in Colombia
The Network of Universities for Information and Communication Technologies (UxTIC) and the Binance Foundation have announced their new alliances in order to create spaces dedicated to learning in the field of blockchain and…
Blockchain technology will be used in Colombia
The Ministry of Transport of Colombia has announced the possibility of implementing the use of new technologies to collect, store, process and distribute information in order to seek an improvement in transport operations, management and…
Colombia’s economy showed contraction of 4.5 %
The indicator for monitoring the Colombian economy registered a contraction of 4.5 % in October compared to the same month of the previous year, when the economy presented a year-on-year growth of 3.6 %, according to data from the National…
Lima Group refused results of parliamentary elections in Venezuela
This Monday, December 7, the member countries of the Lima Group rejected through a joint statement the parliamentary elections carried out this Sunday by the National Electoral Council (CNE) in which the ruling party obtained the absolute…
Xiaomi launches a new smartphone in Colombia
Colombia has earned the trust of prominent brands in the technology segment. New device launches are not stopping. An example of this is the recent launch in the country of the new Xiaomi mid-range smartphone focused on gamers called Poco…