CIEX No. 9/2020 - Receipt of Operation Request Procedures at the BCB

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GENERAL PROCESSING DISPATCHED La Paz, February 28, 2020 CIEX No. 9/2020

FROM: GENERAL MANAGEMENT ADMINISTRATION MANAGEMENT TO: ENTITIES OF THE FINANCIAL SYSTEM SUBJECT: RECEIPT OF OPERATION REQUEST PROCEDURES AT THE BCB

Ladies and Gentlemen:

The Central Bank of Bolivia (BCB) announces that starting March 4, 2020, entities of the financial system that process operation requests must comply with the following provisions:

1. Receipt of Operation Request Procedures Operation Request Procedures will be received at the BCB through the Single Correspondence Window (VUC), on all business days from 08:30 to 18:30, in accordance with what is established in the Limit Schedule for Processing Financial System Operations¹. Likewise, the procedures must be directed to the corresponding operational area.

2. Control of Authorized Signatures in Operation Request Procedures Operation Request Procedures must bear authorized signatures that have been previously accredited before the BCB. Requests whose signatures do not match the records held at the BCB will not be accepted. Likewise, the submission time will be verified. The BCB's operational areas may reject requests when the presented documentation contains errors, alterations, is incomplete, due to insufficient funds, or when it does not meet the requirements and norms established to carry out the operations.

3. Accreditation of Authorized Signatures Accreditation Requests (Registration or Cancellation, as applicable) will be made using the following Forms:

• Form. 2860-005 Request for Registration of External Authorized Signatures

¹ Matrix table attached in Annex 1 of this Circular.

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• Form. 2860-006 Request for Cancellation of External Authorized Signatures

Requesting Entities must download the cited forms from the BCB website, complete the information, attach the requirements, and send them to the BCB through the VUC.

The forms and the registration instruction are published in electronic format on the BCB WEB PAGE at the address:

https://www.bcb.gob.bo/firmasautorizadas

Requests for accreditation of signatory signatures that are registered as Active in another entity or in another position within the same entity will not be accepted; therefore, the corresponding cancellation must be previously requested before the BCB.

Attention notes are not required for the Accreditation procedure.

4. Receipt of Digital Procedures In compliance with the Institutional E-Government Plan of the Central Bank of Bolivia, approved by R.D. No. 078/2018 of June 26, 2018, documents signed digitally will be received and processed. To subscribe to this procedure modality, the Highest Executive Authorities and/or Legal Representatives of the Entities that require sending digital procedures must formally communicate the email address from which the messages with the digital procedures will be sent.

External Circular CIEX No. 34/2019 of May 31, 2019 is hereby repealed.

Sincerely,

[Signature] GASTON ELIAS CORDERO CRESPO ADMINISTRATION MANAGER BANCO CENTRAL DE BOLIVIA

[Signature] JAIME VALENCIA VALENCIA GENERAL MANAGER BANCO CENTRAL DE BOLIVIA

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ANNEX 1 LIMIT SCHEDULE FOR PROCESSING FINANCIAL SYSTEM OPERATIONS

N°	AREA	TYPE OF OPERATION	MAXIMUM RECEIPT TIME
1	GOM-SOMA	Request for credit to current or reserve accounts at the order of the last holders for payment upon maturity of public securities and/or Early Cancellations.	12:00
2	GOM-SOMA	Authorization of debit to the current or reserve accounts of the liquidating bank for the amount of 2% of the nominal value awarded as guarantee, for financial entities that do not have accounts at the BCB	12:00
3	GOM-SOMA	Authorization of debit by the Liquidating Bank for placement of awarded securities for financial entities that do not have accounts at the BCB	12:00
4	GOM-SOMA	Authorization of credit and/or debit by the Liquidating Bank for Repo operations with the BCB (Repo Auction)	12:00
5	GOM-SOMA	Authorization of credit and/or debit by the Liquidating Bank for Repo operations with the BCB (Money Desk)	15:00
6	GOM-SOSP	Transfer Orders (OT's) for customs collections.	15:00
7	GOI-SOEXT	Request from the financial system to purchase USD through the Bolsín	15:00
8	GOM-SOSP	Transfers to MEFP accounts	17:00
9	GEF-SRRA	Request for operations by FONDESIF Service Provision Contract	16:00
10	GEF-SRRA	Request for BUN operations	18:00
11	GEF-SSPSF	Operations enabled in the LIP System (declared in contingency)	16:00
12	GEF-SSPSF	Financial System Operations not enabled in the LIP System (CPVIS)	16:00
13	GOM-SOMA	Submission by the EDV of the list of dematerialized securities to be paid	18:00
14	GOM-SOMA	Submission by the EDV of communication of maturity of dematerialized securities with list of last holders to be paid.	18:00
15	GOM-SOMA	Submission by the EDV of the Report of Cancellation of Dematerialized Securities	18:00

The BCB contributes to the economic and social development of the country Ayacucho Street corner Mercado - Telephone: (591-2) 2409090 - Fax: (591-2) 2661590 www.bcb.gob.bo - bancocentraldebolivia@bcb.gob.bo - La Paz - Bolivia