Brazil broker Rico Corretora launched MetaTrader 5 for stocks, futures and options trading with BM&F Bovespa. "We are happy to offer this powerful cutting-edge platform to our clients who trade on BM&F Bovespa," Rico Corretora IT Director Everson Ramos said. Read More »

Company's solar modules to illuminate more than half of the Arco Metropolitano do Rio de Janeiro. Read More »

Bolivia, a land-locked country of 10 million in the center of South America that is often associated in the past with poverty, has made significant progress in recent years under the leadership of a former cocoa farmer and is managing a solid economic expansion. Read More »

A Texas-based company is promoting a software platform through the first-of-its-kind project in Latin America that can help utilities optimize energy distribution during peak hours to avoid blackouts. The company, Innovari, sees potential in the region for its product. Read More »

Invoiceware International on Tuesday announced a strategic alliance with Lexmark to help multinational companies optimize accounts payable workflows and simplify financial compliance throughout the region. Read More »

MailUp S.p.A. on Monday announced the acquisition of 70 percent of Acumabmail SL, with the option to acquire the remaining 30 percent of the company three years after signing the agreement. Read More »

Newly appointed Executive President of Corporación Dinant Miguel Mauricio Facusse last week restated his company's plan to bring together all stakeholders in the Aguan region of Honduras to discuss solutions to some of the problems people living and working in the area have. Read More »

Nymity Inc., a global research company, on Monday announced the appointment of José Alejandro Bermúdez to managing director of Latin America, in order to lead Nymity's newly created business unit in the region. Read More »

ABB, a power and automation technology group, in a joint project with Enertiva Energia Alternativa, has been the inverter supplier for a solar installation on the roof of the Costa Rican Estadio Alejandro Morera Soto, home of the La Liga Deportiva Alajuelense football club. Read More »

Encompass Supply Chain Solutions Inc., a provider of forward and reverse logistics for a range of finished goods and replacement parts, on July 23 announced that it will be doubling the size of its Ft. Lauderdale, Florida, distribution facility to support new business. Read More »

The U.S. Trade and Development Agency on Monday awarded a grant to the Associação Nacional dos Transportadores de Passageiros sobre Trilhos to modernize the rail information technology in Brazil. Read More »

Continental Gold Inc. on Tuesday announced the appointment of Mateo Restrepo Villegas to executive vice president, effective as of Aug. 12. Read More »

Corporacion del Sur, S.A., a member of Pellas Development Group, in association with the Nicaragua Tourism Board, on Tuesday announced the opening of Nicaragua's Costa Esmeralda Airport. Read More »

Gold extracted illegally from regions of the Amazon rainforest, causing deforestation of thousands of acres and contributing to social ills such as child labor and prostitution, may be ending up in nations outside of the Amazon region, such as the U.S. and Switzerland, an official from the Peruvian Society of Environmental Rights said recently. Read More »

Portugal's PHC Software, which sells software for business companies in Portugal, Spain, Angola and Mozambique, is starting operations in Latin America this year, initially with a base in Peru from where it wants to expand to two other countries. Read More »

Gold Arrow Resources Corporation recently announced that it has experienced an increase in mineral resources at the Chinchillas Silver Deposit located in Jujuy Province, Argentina. Read More »

Cidade de Itaguaí producing oil in the Santos Basin 149 miles off the shore of Rio de Janeiro. Read More »

Software will help global insurer with underwriting flood insurance policies. Read More »

Natixis, a corporate, investment, insurance and financial services arm of Group BPCE, the second largest banking group in France, is working to build its presence in Latin American markets. Read More »

Brazil´s Bradesco said it has reached an agreement with HSBC Latin America Holdings (UK), Ltd., for the acquisition of 100 percent of HSBC Bank Brasil S.A. for $5.2 billion, Bradesco CEO Luiz Carlos Trabuco confirmed at a Monday press conference. Read More »