Key Facts
—The deal. Grupo Cibest, the parent of Bancolombia, closed the sale of its Panama bank Banistmo on June 30.
—The price. The buyer paid about US$1.418bn for 100% of the shares.
—The buyer. Banco La Hipotecaria, part of El Salvador’s Inversiones Cuscatlán, financed it with its own cash and an international syndicated loan.
—The customers. Banistmo keeps its name and serves more than 600,000 clients in Panama.








