News of assets

Colombia’s number one banker has no fear of leftist front-runner

19-05-2022 08:00 Luis Carlos Sarmiento Gutiérrez would figure to be one of the people fretting the most about the looming election of the first left-wing leader in Colombia’s modern history. But, at least publicly, he betrays little angst about the outcome of the vote this month.

RULING COALITION

Frente de Todos senators eye bill to tax undeclared assets held overseas

28-03-2022 22:02 Ruling coalition senators propose new bill that would tax the undeclared assets of citizens held overseas and use them to pay off IMF debt.

BLOOMBERG – INTERVIEW

Colombia presidential front-runner Gustavo Petro seeks global anti-oil bloc

17-01-2022 06:59 Colombia’s presidential front-runner Gustavo Petro is calling on ideological allies across Latin America and the world to join him in forming a new bloc to lead the economy away from fossil fuels.

ECONOMY

BitCow: Cryptocurrencies break into Argentina’s agricultural sector

26-12-2021 08:00 Blockchain technology and tokenisation of assets such as cows and soybeans could provide Argentina’s agricultural sector with greater transparency and traceability

LEFTIST ELECTED PRESIDENT

Chile stock market plummets in response to Boric's election win

20-12-2021 11:40 Chilean stock market and peso takes a beating after leftist leader Gabriel Boric is elected the country's youngest-ever president-elect.

BLOOMBERG

Argentina’s dollar bonds slip to eight-month low on wait for economic plan

25-11-2021 15:23 Argentina's dollar bonds trade at an eight-month low. Slide comes just days after investors cheered outcome of midterm elections.

PANDORA PAPERS LEAK

World leaders scramble to limit 'Pandora Papers' damage

04-10-2021 13:20 More than a dozen heads of state and government, from Jordan to Azerbaijan, Kenya and the Czech Republic, have used offshore tax havens to hide assets worth hundreds of millions of dollars, according to a far-reaching new investigation by the ICIJ media consortium.

PANDORA PAPERS LEAK

Panama law firm heavily implicated in 'Pandora Papers' revelations

04-10-2021 13:01 Prestigious Panamanian law firm was named in the so-called 'Pandora Papers' as implicated in the creation of offshore shell companies meant to hide money in tax havens for more than 160 politicians and public figures.

PANDORA PAPERS

Here are the biggest revelations from the Pandora Papers leak

04-10-2021 10:19 Huge leak of financial records reveals offshore financial assets of dozens of current and former world leaders and hundreds of politicians from Asia and the Middle East to Latin America.

KIRCHNER FAMILY WEALTH

Cristina Fernández de Kirchner declares wealth of 16.4 million pesos

22-09-2021 14:19 Vice-President Cristina Fernández de Kirchner declares total wealth of 16,463,095 pesos; Máximo Kirchner reports 400 million pesos.

BLOOMBERG

Banco Galicia CEO: Inflation will keep battering banking returns

19-02-2021 12:42 Argentine banks took a beating last year, and the nation’s biggest lender says the industry is at risk of a repeat performance.

Bloomberg

YPF to sell flagship office tower to keep shale dream alive

07-01-2021 15:52 YPF SA plans to sell its iconic office tower in Puerto Madero, which could bring in some US$400 million.

BLOOMBERG

Argentina gives Templeton, Pimco chance to trim peso holdings

09-11-2020 18:04 Argentina is giving some of its largest bondholders the chance to trim their holdings in one of the world’s worst-performing currencies, offering to swap their local peso securities for dollar-denominated assets.

EXPROPRIATION OF VICENTIN

Fernández annuls DNU ordering intervention into Vicentin

01-08-2020 08:51 President dramatically ditches takeover plan of agro-giant in series of tweets.

Congress

Fernández confirms government will impose one-off wealth tax

03-06-2020 15:09 President says the introduction of a capital levy would be a one-off “extraordinary measure." Lawmakers say bill would boost government coffers by between US$2.5 million and US$4 billion.

News of assets

Colombia’s number one banker has no fear of leftist front-runner

Frente de Todos senators eye bill to tax undeclared assets held overseas

Colombia presidential front-runner Gustavo Petro seeks global anti-oil bloc

BitCow: Cryptocurrencies break into Argentina’s agricultural sector

Chile stock market plummets in response to Boric's election win

Argentina’s dollar bonds slip to eight-month low on wait for economic plan

World leaders scramble to limit 'Pandora Papers' damage

Panama law firm heavily implicated in 'Pandora Papers' revelations

Here are the biggest revelations from the Pandora Papers leak

Cristina Fernández de Kirchner declares wealth of 16.4 million pesos

Banco Galicia CEO: Inflation will keep battering banking returns

YPF to sell flagship office tower to keep shale dream alive

Argentina gives Templeton, Pimco chance to trim peso holdings

Fernández annuls DNU ordering intervention into Vicentin

Fernández confirms government will impose one-off wealth tax

Study: One in four young people in Argentina neither study nor work

Hunt for lithium sparks frantic rush into Argentina's mountains

Argentina moves closer to joining BRICS group

Inflation a severe risk to Latin America's stability, warn analysts at Davos

Government relaxes FX rules for companies to boost Vaca Muerta development

A pesar de representar a la Ciudad de Buenos Aires, la diputada de Milei gastó todos los pasajes aéreos del Estado

Tiroteo en Texas: quién era Salvador Ramos, el adolescente que exhibía armas en sus redes y asesinó a 21 personas

Luis Juez lapidó a la Corte por el caso de la fiscal Goyeneche: “Si tuviera un poco más de huevos, podría intervenir”

“A Spinetta no solo lo frustró la experiencia de Invisible, si no del rock”: la mirada del autor de “Tigres en el Lluvia”

El neurólogo que murió en el incendio del departamento de Felipe Pettinato tenía rastros de "líquido acelerante" en el cuerpo