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The financial sector's dominance of FDI (45.4%)

Dossier
The record of foreign investment: real cases11-casos.md
Domain
Foreign investment, in figurescasos-inversion
Room
Economy/economia
Audited
Audited

Financial and insurance activities absorbed US$855.2 million, 45.4% of the 2025 FDI inflow (Banguat preliminary). The dossier reads that concentration as reinvested earnings of regional parent companies (banks with Colombian and Central American capital) rather than new plant projects. The next recipients were trade (US$358.6 M, 19.1%), manufacturing (US$203.5 M, 10.8%), information and communications (US$187.0 M, 9.9%) and electricity, water and sanitation (US$138.4 M, 7.4%). The specific banking cases (Bancolombia/BAM, Ficohsa, Promerica) could not be verified in this session.

The research is written in English; quoted figures, source names and the titles of legal instruments stay in the language their source published them in.

Figures

FDI in financial and insurance activitiesBanguat, PDF IED_2025
US$855.2 million (45.4%)2025p
FDI in trade and vehicle repairBanguat, PDF IED_2025
US$358.6 million (19.1%)2025p
FDI in manufacturingBanguat, PDF IED_2025
US$203.5 million (10.8%)2025p

Caveat

the interpretation (reinvested earnings of regional parent companies) is the dossier's reading, not a Banguat statement; banking cases unverified

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