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The Board of Directors of the Central Bank of Colombia submitted its first report of the year to the Congress of Colombia. The report analyzes the international economic environment, the performance of the Colombian economy in 2016, and the outlook for this year. In this context, the monetary…

The Inflation Targeting Scheme in Colombia   OBJECTIVES Monetary policy in Colombia is based on inflation targeting, which is intended primarily to keep inflation low and to ensure stable growth in output near its long-term trend. Accordingly, the objectives of monetary policy combine the goal…

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Banco de la República (the Central Bank of Colombia) produces information intended for decision-making and accountability processes as well as for public knowledge. In particular, the Financial Markets Report responds to the principle of public dissemination, thus contributing to the Bank’s service…

Banco de la República (the Central Bank of Colombia) produces information intended for decision-making and accountability processes as well as for public knowledge. In particular, the Financial Markets Report responds to the principle of public dissemination, thus contributing to the Bank’s service…

Banco de la República (the Central Bank of Colombia) produces information intended for decision-making and accountability processes as well as for public knowledge. In particular, the Financial Markets Report responds to the principle of public dissemination, thus contributing to the Bank’s service…

Banco de la República (the Central Bank of Colombia) produces information intended for decision-making and accountability processes as well as for public knowledge. In particular, the Financial Markets Report responds to the principle of public dissemination, thus contributing to the Bank’s service…

In Colombia, the National Development Banks (NDBs) are organized as a system of four (initially five) specialized institutions. This system was adopted during the market reforms of the early 1990s, which eliminated the development functions of the central bank, liberalized the financial sector and…

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In December 2018, inflation and all core inflation indicators fell close to the 3.0% target. Inflation expectations to one and more years are around 3.5%. The new economic activity figures for the last quarter of 2018 suggest that economic growth is still recovering from levels of output lower than…

1. The recovery of the Colombian economy has gradually mitigated the main short-term vulnerabilities for the financial stability of the system.2. Credit institutions maintain solid solvency and liquidity indicators, despite the reduction in profitability and the slow growth in the volume of credit.…

On May 25, 2018, the Executive Board of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) approved a new agreement that was favorable to Colombia, within the framework of the flexible credit line (FCL), for 384% of the country’s quota in this organization. This percentage corresponds to 7.848 billion (b) of…

In 1an effort to comprehensively renew the regulatory framework and adjust it to the multiple events and innovations that have taken place in the Colombian scenario over the last eighteen years, Banco de la República recently began working on a revision of all pertinent regulations. The idea was to…

One of the main functions of Banco de la República is to further the safe and efficient functioning of the payment systems, a job it carries out by providing banking services to financial institutions. These include access to payment systems and to trading, clearing, and custody of government bonds…

Crypto-assets (CA) such as Bitcoin are digital units that can be used as a medium of payment for the exchange of goods and services, as a store of value, and as a unit of account (FATF, 2015). These assets can be stored on computer devices and transferred by the internet on a global scale whether…