This document analyses monetary policy effects on transmission of credit interest rates in Colombia with particular attention to the period of global liquidity spurred by the COVID-pandemic during 2020-2022. Challenges for banks operating in Colombia are twofold: they face increasing banking...

Colombia has witnessed a renewed interest in merging and acquiring financial institutions during 2003-05. These have been "complementary mergers" that seek to exploit economies scale and scope. This process contrasts favorably with those mergers and acquisitions that occurred during the...