# Colombia Oil Decline and SME Cyber Risk

**Podcast:** La Estrategia del Día Colombia
**Published:** 2026-01-28

## Transcript

This episode of the Estrategia del Día is patrocinated by MasterCard.
In a world digital, the pymes necessitarian that permit create and operate with seguital.
Feliz miércoles.
This is the Strategia del Día Colombia.
Yo soy María Cesuárez and hoy sobre la production petrolera in 2025, the encuesta de Anif over the task of Banco de la Republic and the project of decreto that eliminated the retention in the city for compras con target.
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ACIPET, the Association Colombiana de Ingenieros de Petroleo, Energía y Technología informó que entre enero anda, the production petrolera llegó a 746,402 barriles per year, which refleja una caída de 3,6% from the new period of the a yeah anterior when 774,180 barriles per year.
The operators with major production in enero and november were Ecopetrol, Frontera Energy y Geopark.
The result of the encuesta ANIF about the tasa de intervention del Bank of the Republic in enero of 2026 mostly between the analysts in anticiparation.
The Minister of Hacienda public in the fuente of 1,5% that seems at compromises hechas with target debit and credit.
Specifically that the pages that are via this mechanism of pay that constitute an aggressive tributary notion in the fund at title of the imposter of the rent.
The borrowed decretous that when the pages or abonoscience article correspond to compare of benefits or services for the dispositions especially established tariffs of retirement in the applicable superior to 0% with independence of the pay, application the tariffs previous in that case for those dispositions and the agents of retention that realized the abono in rent will practical respective.
Inclusive, subray that with the divisa in minimum of six months, the moment actual would be attractive for company.
Felipe Campos of Alliance Valors emphasized the diversification and advertised that the dollar would surprise the large play.
The problem was to enter in a strategy clear of salary.
In conjunction, the experts coincided in that debate not for accepting a number exactly but for entertaining the dollar dentro of a strategy of inversion coherent.
This was the risk of creature more lent by 2021 and reflected a major candidate of immigrants that moved to Stato United and a major number of people who abandoned the pace.
In this entrevista, experts of MasterCard discover how the company responds with a proposal design for a person to create, digitalized and protecting from risk emerging.
So we did a survey uh recently where we discovered that 46% of SMEs globally have been in the markets that we surveyed, which is about 20 markets globally, including Latin America.
46% had suffered a cyber attack, and of that 46%, nearly one in five was out of business a year later.
Now they might have been going out of business anyway, but still it's a very bleak statistic.
So a couple of things.