As Colombia’s energy regulator CREG finalises rules for renewable energy tenders, local finance house Bancolombia is ready to lend around $55m to clean-energy projects with money raised via Latin America’s first international green bond issue by a commercial bank.

“We have started disbursing the money and by May we will...announce the projects financed,” Bancolombia’s finance chief Jose Humberto Acosta told Recharge.

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